Surfs Up
Attention all hands, prepare the ship for heavy weather...Lower all booms and housings, seel all hatches and life boats...block in all ammo on the main deck...Expected seas to be running in the trouft...Expected wave heights, 80 feet...Expected wind speed 160 kts....Expected rainfall rates, 2 inches per hour...Expected...Typhoone Ann...Cat 5 max....Rig safety lines on the fore decks...All hands restricted to below decks....The galley is closed...The barbershop is closed...The smoking lamb is lite in all crew decks...

The Chaplin will give a special service tonight before we enter the storm...

What we got...80 foots seas, the greatest storm in recorded Western Pacific History...top winds speeds of 200 kts....Two pallets of 500 pound bombs broke lose and were crashing about on the main deck...1st division had the pleasure of going out into that black morass of a night and securing them...and 42 inches of rain in 24 hours....gdh