Tourists evacuated as Taiwan gets ready for Trami’s arrival
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Taiwan evacuated more than 1,000 tourists from an island yesterday and deployed troops in preparation for the possible arrival of Tropical Storm Trami.
The island’s weather bureau said the storm, 590 kilometers east-southeast of Taipei at 8:30pm, would bring heavy rain from late last night even if it did not make landfall.
“Starting from tonight, there will be heavy or very heavy rain in the mountainous areas of the northeast and west,” the bureau said yesterday.
The storm, with gusts up to 126 kilometers per hour, was moving west northwest at a speed of 23 kilometers per hour.
Officials at the bureau said the impact may be felt mostly from tonight to tomorrow morning.
In reaction to the warning, ferries operating between the southeastern city of Taitung and Green Island evacuated 1,700 tourists.
Television images showed hundreds of fishing boats packing Suao, a fishing port in the northeast county of Ilan which is likely to bear the brunt of the storm.
Nearby, the military deployed 300 soldiers and four amphibious rescue vehicles.
In Taipei, residents of some low-lying areas piled up sandbags.
Last month, Typhoon Soulik battered Taiwan with torrential rain and powerful winds, leaving two people dead and at least 100 injured.
Roofs were ripped from homes, debris and fallen trees littered the streets and some areas were submerged by floods.
The National Meteorological Center in Beijing issued a yellow warning alert yesterday for the storm, the third highest level in a four tier system.
The 12th tropical storm to hit China this year is expected to move toward the southeastern coast in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, bringing strong gales and rain.
The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center said the tropical storm was likely to become a typhoon, and issued a higher-level wave alert.
The marine forecast center said it would generate waves up to 9 meters high in southern parts of the East China Sea and waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands.
The Taiwan Strait is likely to see waves of 3 to 5 meters while coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian will record waves of 1.5 to 2.5 meters.
Local fishing vessels and authorities have been urged to prepare for the storm.
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