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Aftermath of the Jangmi Typhoon

by JeffHuang | September 29, 2008 at 09:03 am

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Heritage has done an admirable job with the Jangmi Typhoon updates here.

The typhoon basically shutdown Taiwan as schools and businesses were closed throughout the island and with the typhoon now retreating, the locals are left with the aftermath.
The article below talks about the poweroutages with 40 electric poles being knocked down and a local chicken farmer losing around 7million NT(Taiwanese currency) over the weekend. 90 000 chickens are said to be dead due to drowning.

台2線濱海公路40根電桿倒，造成停電。冬山月眉路田邊一間有打樁的貨櫃屋(堆放稻草)被吹10公尺遠，撞毀民宅圍牆；一間汽修廠後方堆置的廢車殼被吹到100~150遠的田間，未造成傷害。

蘇澳一間養了9萬多隻雛雞的鐵皮雞舍被吹翻，雛雞多擠在一塊淹死，被雨打濕沒死的，雞農也說活不了了，損失約7百萬。

Below explains a community in Taipei evacuating due to mudslides and rocks flowing towards the residents. There were no immediate housing structure threats but as a precaution, 261 households are asked to leave the area.

北市文山區萬壽路七十五巷「政大御花園」社區，因薔蜜颱風帶來的豪雨沖刷山坡地，造成土石滑動，泥流流至該社區內道路，北市長郝龍斌昨晚深夜視察後表示，土石流沒有立即威脅房屋結構，基於安全，市府仍要求72戶，共二百多名住戶撤離。文山區公所並緊急疏散政大御花園、棲霞山莊共83戶，261名住戶。這些住戶均採自主避難，即自行到親友處暫住。當地居民表示，這次土石崩塌，可能是因為台電及貓纜在上方施工，沒有做好水土保持導致。

The agricultural damages are estimated at 318,840,000NT with 2 deaths, 2 missing and 61 people injured. 218,856 are still without power with heavy rain throughout the island. There are still two systems outside of Taiwan with one causing a potential threat to the island in the future days to come. It still needs to be observed throughout the weekend, but I hope Taiwan does not have to face another typhoon anytime in the near future.

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