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Super Typhoon Yutu has moved away from the Northern Mariana Islands after delivering a destructive blow to the United States commonwealth Wednesday night into Thursday. Residents on the islands of Saipan and Tinian, which suffered a direct hit from the storm, said they were bracing for months without electricity or running water.
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, the commonwealth's delegate to U.S. Congress, said the islands will need significant help to recover from the storm, which he said injured several people. No deaths have been confirmed by officials so far, but rescue crews spread out on the islands as soon as the storm passed.
In a telephone interview with the Associated Press from Saipan, Sablan said he has heard reports of injuries and that people are waiting at the island's hospital to be treated.
"There's a lot of damage and destruction," Sablan said. "It's like a small war just passed through."
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Sablan said the entire island sustained damage, but there are areas that are worse than others. He has not been able to reach officials on the territory's neighbor islands of Tinian and Rota because phones and electricity are out.
"It's going to take weeks probably to get electricity back to everybody," he said.
Sablan said crews from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were on their way with food and water, and President Donald Trump issued an emergency declaration ahead of the storm's arrival. All residents of the Northern Mariana Islands are either U.S. citizens or U.S. nationals.
Facebook activated its crisis response page so residents could let friends and family members know they're safe.
"Many homes have been destroyed, our critical infrastructure has been compromised, we currently have no power and water at this time and our ports are inaccessible," Tinian Island mayor Joey Patrick San Nicolas told Reuters.
The electricity on Saipan, the largest island in the commonwealth about 3,800 miles west of Hawaii, went out at 4 p.m. Wednesday, resident Glen Hunter said.
"We probably won't have power for months," he said, recalling how it took four months to restore electricity after Typhoon Soudelor in 2015.
Maximum sustained winds of 180 mph were recorded at the time the storm made its direct hit on Tinian and Saipan, tied with Typhoon Mangkhut as the planet's strongest storm of 2018.
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