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Typhoon Lionrock rocks Misawa, but CE is always ready

Members of the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron, operations section, clean up fallen debris at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016.  The 35th CES responded the morning after the storm and began clean up around the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

Members of the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron operations section clean up fallen debris at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 35th CES responded the morning after Typhoon Lionrock to begin clean up around base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

An uprooted tree lays next to a house unit at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. Typhoon Lionrock with 82mph of desctructive winds ripped trees out of the ground in many areas around the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

An uprooted tree lays next to a housing unit at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. Typhoon Lionrock brought 82 mph destructive winds that tore trees out of the ground in many areas around the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

Members of the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron remove fallen trees from road ways at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 35th CES responded the morning after the storm and began clean up around the base.  (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

Members of the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron remove fallen trees from the road at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 35th CES responded the morning after the storm to begin clean up around the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

The streets around base housing are covered with broken branches and fallen debris at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 10-hour storm had destructive winds that reached up to 82 mph causing damage across the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

Streets throughout base were covered with broken branches and fallen debris at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 10-hour storm brought destructive winds that reached up to 82 mph causing damage across the base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

A tree ripped out and thrown onto a housing unit patio at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. Typhoon Lionrock is the fourth typhoon this season to make landfall in Japan and the first to hit the northeast from the Pacific Ocean since records began in 1951. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

A tree was unrooted by winds and thrown onto a housing unit patio at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. Typhoon Lionrock is the fourth typhoon this season to make landfall in Japan and the first to hit the northeast from the Pacific Ocean since records began in 1951. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)

Misawa Air Base, Japan -- Members of the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron operations section clean up fallen debris at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2016. The 35th CES responded the morning after Typhoon Lionrock to begin clean up around base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Quintanilla)