Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/09

Taipei, July 9 (CNA) More than 20,000 households in Taitung County were without electricity Saturday morning, some 24 hours after Typhoon Nepartak knocked down power lines in the southeastern county with its record breaking gusts.

Water supply to nearly 8,000 families in the county has also not been reconnected, making it difficult to clean up in an area most severely affected by the storm.

As of 9 a.m., electricity to some 27,000 households remained down in Taitung and neighboring Hualien and Pintung Counties, according to Taiwan Power Company. That compared with as many as 542,000 households without power around Taiwan Friday, when Nepartak swept through southern Taiwan and barreled into the Taiwan Strait to the west.

The typhoon made landfall early Friday and left a trail of devastation in Taitung, tearing down roofs and signboards and overturning vehicles parked outdoors. Dozens of people were injured, mainly hit by debris when they ventured out before the wind died down.     [FULL  STORY]