OK, so our island paradise has a few pitfalls which include earthquakes, tsunami warnings and typhoons. Tarague beach, located here on Andersen, had to be evacuated a couple weeks ago due to the 8.2 earthquake which hit Japan. Thankfully, our house is located on high ground and I was able to calm FG down when they announced the evacution of the beach areas.
As FG put it, we can now add another “scary” thing to our list. The other night, as we watched a show on the History channel, we found out Guam is located in the “Dragon’s Triangle” ~ similar to the Bermuda Triangle but located here in the Pacific.
The show went on to talk about how many ships and aircrafts have mysteriously disappeared between Japan, Saipan and Guam. There have even been reports of “ghost” ships where the boat is found adrift with no obvious problems but all the people were missing. Unfortunately, FG caught part of the show and was quite disturbed that we’re in the triangle. Hopefully, she’ll forget about it the next time we take a flight out of here.
Maybe the triangle (which some argue is caused by magnetic fields) explains our mysterious clock problem. After being here several months, FM and I noticed our electric clocks wouldn’t keep the correct time. We would set them all to the same time, but after two weeks, we woud notice all the clocks were running fast ~ sometimes 10 minutes or more fast. The time on the computer is the only one plugged in which remains consistently correct. I mentioned it the other day to a group of ladies and the old timers all said it happens to them as well.
Maybe that explains why time seems to be going so fast here ~ we’ve been here 9 months already!
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