The China Post
Date: September 28, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon Megi killed four, injured 329 and caused more than 6,000 road accidents as it
An excavator works on a section of Provincial Highway 9 on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall caused the embankment to collapse on the section between New Taipei’s Xindian and Wulai districts. (CNA)
barreled across Taiwan on Tuesday, ripping out trees and strewing signboards in its wake.
As of press time, the moderate typhoon had a radius of 250 kilometers and sustained winds of 154.8 kilometers per hour with gusts up to 190.8 kilometers per hour.
The storm made landfall early afternoon on Tuesday, then moved in a west-northwesterly direction at 15 kph, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
If Megi moves along its projected trajectory, it should exit Taiwan proper by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Record Electricity Shortage
Taipower said Megi knocked out power to as many as 2.9 million households, marking the second-largest typhoon-related power outage on record.
Taiwan’s largest power outage — affecting 4.5 million households — was brought by Typhoon Soudelor in 2015, the state-run electricity company said. [FULL STORY]