Super Typhoon Bavi slammed Rota with winds over 180 mph, causing catastrophic damage to a USU.S. territory still reeling from Super Typhoon Sinlaku just months earlier. Parts of Saipan and Tinian were already without power from Sinlaku when Bavi hit, piling devastation on devastation. Climate change, tied to a turbocharged El Nino is driving this surge in powerful storms —and BaviU.S. isterritories the 11th Category 4 or 5 cyclone to strike US territory in a decade, matching the entireWestern prior 57-year totalPacific.