The USA needs to respond to the dire emergency in the Pacific.

The storm demands are increasing. There is no additional activity expected in this area of the Pacific for the next 48 hours, there are heavy rains in Texas and Willa is expected to bring rain to the east coast while another tropical low pressure is developing in the Atlantic with potential for a landfall storm.

October 24, 2018
By Jacey Fortin

A devastating super typhoon .(click here) slammed the Northern Mariana Islands starting late Wednesday, destroying more than 100 homes in what meteorologists said could be the strongest storm to have struck the United States this year.

The Northern Mariana Islands, a United States commonwealth in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Guam, include Saipan, Tinian and Rota. They are home to more than 52,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Saipan.

The eye of the storm, called Yutu, passed directly over Tinian around 2 a.m. local time on Thursday — the islands are 14 hours ahead of the East Coast — with wind speeds reaching 180 m.p.h. or more, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane....

...On Wednesday, President Trump declared an emergency in the Northern Mariana Islands and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to begin disaster relief efforts.

Some FEMA workers had arrived in the commonwealth by Thursday morning, said Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, the commonwealth’s delegate in the House of Representatives, in a series of posts on Twitter. He added that ports were closed, many flights were canceled, several shelters were filling up, and some health care facilities had been damaged or were running on generator power. He warned residents to stay indoors if possible....

Willa has caused chaos at sea. The "Norwegian Bliss" is a huge ship. It has it's own water slide and go-cart course. The navigation of the ship is not in peril, but, being a cruise ship provides for important decisions with so many people on board that are simply not sea faring folks.