Living in the Marianas, I have grown to appreciate the science in the El Nino/La Nina events. I was on Saipan in 1997 through early 1998. They were still naming storms in alphabetical order at that time. We were hit by Willy and Keith in that order, and Paka hit Guam in December. That is a total of 42 storms in this part of the Pacific that year. I moved to Guam in 1998, and survived three storms in 2002. As Director of Safety with a trans Pacific cargo airline, I keep a close watch on the weather patterns and refer to this website regularly. Previously, as a pilot, our flight planning service sent us right through the eye of a storm north of Pohnpei in 2002. We were at 37,000 feet, and it was still interesting.