'Time is moving so slowly': Two people describe the power of Typhoon Mawar in Guam

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Holed up in her hotel room, Lauren Swaddell could hear the wind howl as Typhoon Mawar approached Guam.

"The storm is going to hit in approximately two hours," she said in a voice memo to NPR, recorded on Wednesday afternoon local time.

"I'm looking out of my window and I just see massive waves in what's normally a super calm bay. Trees are losing their branches. The coconut trees are flying everywhere."

"It is so strange to me that it's only 2pm right now and it feels like it's been an entire day ... Time is moving so slowly with this storm."

At one point, Swaddell says she could feel the walls of the hotel shaking.

Swaddell, 33, grew up in Guam and now works in Washington, D.C. She is visiting home for a work trip, just in time for the category 4 storm to pass over the island.