Typhoon heads for China's east coast
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August 30, 2011, Tuesday
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A TYPHOON that flooded homes, roads and farmland in Taiwan with more than half a meter of rain left the island yesterday and headed to the Chinese mainland's east coast.
Typhoon Nanmadol stayed over Taiwan for only a few hours and was weaker than when it pummeled the Philippines, where at least 16 people died and another eight were missing.
One death in Taiwan was attributed to the storm - a motorcyclist hit by debris - and disruption to everyday life was extensive.
Some 30,000 households in southern and eastern Taiwan lost power, 8,000 people were evacuated and scores of roads and bridges were closed due to heavy rain. Offices and schools were closed in the southeast as well as in Taipei, which escaped the brunt of the storm.
In a southwestern county, civil defense crews used small boats to rescue people from communities hit by flash floods. Dozens of homes were flooded.
CTI cable news station footage showed the aftermath of landslides in Pingtung township and several homes partially submerged by water.
Pingtung is just to the south of the mountainous regions where more than 500 people died two years ago in mudslides spawned by torrential rains associated with Typhoon Morakot, the most devastating storm to hit the island in half a century.
Typhoon Nanmadol stayed over Taiwan for only a few hours and was weaker than when it pummeled the Philippines, where at least 16 people died and another eight were missing.
One death in Taiwan was attributed to the storm - a motorcyclist hit by debris - and disruption to everyday life was extensive.
Some 30,000 households in southern and eastern Taiwan lost power, 8,000 people were evacuated and scores of roads and bridges were closed due to heavy rain. Offices and schools were closed in the southeast as well as in Taipei, which escaped the brunt of the storm.
In a southwestern county, civil defense crews used small boats to rescue people from communities hit by flash floods. Dozens of homes were flooded.
CTI cable news station footage showed the aftermath of landslides in Pingtung township and several homes partially submerged by water.
Pingtung is just to the south of the mountainous regions where more than 500 people died two years ago in mudslides spawned by torrential rains associated with Typhoon Morakot, the most devastating storm to hit the island in half a century.
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