The End of Morakot, Not Quite
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It seems that while the storm fizzed out in the northern part of Taiwan, southern Taiwan was devastated in some places. David Reid has an article that tells about everything that happened. Right now, the emphasis is on disaster relief. We’re getting some more rain from the storm today but that is expected to end soon.
UPDATE: I’ve added this video, captured from Channel 51 news in Taiwan, below.
Check out this news story that gives details about the devastation.
Here is a BBC artcile with photos.
Michael Turton’s blog with links.
Photo of water being released from Shimen Dam.
Tainan to Chaiyi run on the THSR.
Jiasian, Kaohsiung County.
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August 9th, 2009 at 4:20 am
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August 9th, 2009 at 6:25 am
check out this vid – hotel just topples over from typhoon Morakot RT:@thenhbushman The End of Morakot, Not Quite | http://tinyurl.com/mh4jm9
August 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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August 9th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I just seen this video clip on Ch 7′s morning news here … amazing. I didn’t hear them say where in Taiwan this happened… so I don’t know if this was anywhere near you or what.
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thenhbushman
reply on August 9th, 2009 10:38 pm:
Mike, we’re on the west coast, in the north/central area. that hotel was on the east coast, down south. southern Taiwan really got hurt by this typhoon. all we got was some rain and a bit of wind.
mike01905
reply on August 10th, 2009 7:51 pm:
OK.
Like I said… on Channel 7 here (and on others now)… they showed the video but they didn’t say what city it was in… so I couldn’t look up to see where in Taiwan that happened.
They did say that the hotel was evacuated before it collapsed.
.-= mike01905´s last blog ..Jim Rice Day at Fenway Park =-.
thenhbushman
reply on August 11th, 2009 4:27 pm:
Mike, that happened on the southeastern coast. we were in that area recently. it’s a shame.
mike01905
reply on August 11th, 2009 8:05 pm:
They’ve replayed that video on the news here… and Ch 25 started to put on the botton of the screen that it was in Taitung County. So I looked that up on Google Earth and seen where it was.
Aren’t your in-laws in Southern Taiwan (but on the west coast and not the east coast where this hotel collapsed)??? Did they had any big problems down there from the typhoon???
.-= mike01905´s last blog ..Jim Rice Day at Fenway Park =-.
thenhbushman
reply on August 12th, 2009 2:13 pm:
Mike, our family members all live in Kaohsiung, but very near the city. none of them were affected by typhoon Morakot except with a few minor inconveniences.