ACCIDENTS:Eight people were injured when a tour bus rolled onto its side on a freeway, while three pedestrians were hurt by collapsing scaffolding at a Taichung hotel
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 28, 2016
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Typhoon Megi left four people dead and 268 injured, while 11,559 people had been evacuated from
Emergency personnel inspect a tour bus turned on its side by strong winds on National Freeway No. 3 in Changhua County yesterday. Photo: Tang Shih-ming, Taipei Times
disaster-prone areas as of 7pm yesterday, the Central Emergency Operations Center said.
The center of Megi made landfall near Hualien City at about 2pm yesterday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said.
By 9:30pm, the typhoon’s eye was hovering over Penghu in the Taiwan Strait, moving west-southwest at 20kph, with a radius of 250km.
The typhoon was packing gusts of up to 180kph, the bureau said.
Wind speed in Yilan County’s Suao (蘇澳) reached level 17 on the Beaufort scale before Megi made landfall, bureau forecaster Luo Ya-ying (羅雅尹) said.
Wind speed in Yilan City and Hualien County reached level 15 and level 14 respectively, Luo said, adding that wind speed reached level 15 in Taichung’s Wuci District (梧棲) and level 14 in Taoyuan’s Sinwu District (新屋). [FULL STORY]
