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When the recording rewound to the point where Beth and Locsin entered the building, Linda began playing it forward, and Murph ran it through the colish The translation wasn’t perfect, but they got the gist of it

“He is right, Dolap,” one of thethat happened to that administrator, Alonzo? I wanted to throw up all the times I saw him chained to that rock out there”

“It doesn’t aan tell me we kill her tomorrow They already see the effects of the Typhoon they want to I will ask the pain in my side since she arrived here”

Linda gasped “That’s long before Hidalgo will be gone It’ll still be near full strength toht over us at four in the ”

Everyone in the op center was quiet again, this time from the shock of the death sentence they’d just heard Juan didn’t want to ad a ory 3 typhoon seemed beyond even their capability In fact, he orried that Eddie, Raven, and Hali wouldn’t make it back before the brunt of the storm hit

Then he sat forward in his chair as so Linda said resonated

“Linda, put the predicted storm track up on the screen and lay it over the map of the truck’s route”

She did so, and the center of Hidalgo was not only predicted to go over the Oregon but the cavern as well

“Hoide is the eye of the typhoon and what’s the speed?” he asked her

“The eye is twenty-three miles across, and the wind speeds could be up to one hundred and twenty-five miles per hour when it makes landfall”

Juan shook his head “Not the wind speed The forward speed of the entire typhoon”

She furrowed her brow at the odd question “About ten miles per hour”

“Then that gives us a little more than two hours to ith” The cavern was only seven miles from their present position

Both Eric and Murph turned to him at the same time with incredulous looks on their faces

“Are you seriously thinking of going out in the middle of a typhoon?” Eric asked