The administration has used the Federal Power Act to keep plants that were set for retirement in operation, a tactic often used to keep plants online during temporary emergencies like hurricanes or heat waves.
In an interview with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Williams mentioned not only having survived multiple typhoons but six Kamikaze attacks during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as well as attacks by suicide swimmers and suicide boats.
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Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
Major typhoons in 2018 and 2022 brought intense rainfall that damaged terraces across the Cordillera.
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