The China Post
Date: July 9, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon Nepartak moved out into the Taiwan Strait from Jiangchun District

A truck was blown over on the traffic island of a street in downtown Taitung as Typhoon Nepartak made landfall there in the early hours of Friday bringing heavy rains and the strongest winds to hit the county in 61 years. (CNA)

of Tainan City in Southern Taiwan at 2:30 p.m., Friday after leaving three dead and 142 injured and 1,836 cases of trees and signboards falling and other damage, according to data issued by the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) and the Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC).

CWB forecasters said that Taiwan proper will totally exit the storm circle of Nepartak early Saturday, but the outlying islands will remain under the influence of the typhoon until Saturday evening. They advised people to stay on the alert for continuing strong winds and heavy rains brought by the storm.

The first typhoon of the 2016 Pacific typhoon season made landfall in Southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County at 5:50 a.m. Friday, pummeling much of Taiwan with strong gusts and heavy rains but with Taitung bearing the brunt of the storm, with many houses damaged, and low-lying areas flooded in the county amid the strongest winds to hit the county in 61 years.     [FULL  STORY]