TAIPEI听–听罢补颈飞补苍听worked to restore听辫辞飞别谤听to more than 30,000 households听补蹿迟别谤听罢测辫丑辞辞苍听贬补颈办耻颈听barreled into the east and south of the island, as cities and counties in the affected areas closed schools and businesses and domestic airlines cancelled flights.
贬补颈办耻颈听made landfall in the mountainous and sparsely populated far southeast of聽罢补颈飞补苍听on Sunday听补蹿迟别谤noon, the first听迟测辫丑辞辞苍听to directly hit聽罢补颈飞补苍听in four years. It then moved across the southern part of the island.
State-run utility Tai辫辞飞别谤听said聽贬补颈办耻颈听knocked out听辫辞飞别谤听for more than 240,000 households but that fewer than 34,000 were still waiting for electricity to be restored as of Monday, around half of those in the eastern county of Taitung.
Counties and cities across southern, eastern and central聽罢补颈飞补苍听cancelled classes and declared a day off for workers on Monday. In capital city Taipei there were sporadic gusty rain showers.
罢补颈飞补苍听Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC)聽2330.TW, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said its plants in聽罢补颈飞补苍听were operating normally and had not been affected by the storm.
Taiwan‘s fire department reported five injuries as a result of the听迟测辫丑辞辞苍听but no deaths.听罢补颈飞补苍‘s government said more than 7,000 people had been evacuated, mainly in the south and east.
罢补颈飞补苍听airlines cancelled 189 domestic flights on Monday, with only a handful scheduled to fly, while ferry services to surrounding islands were also suspended. There was less disruption to international flights, with only 23 cancelled, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said.
贬补颈办耻颈听is much weaker than聽, which hit Hong Kong and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Saturday.
As of Monday morning,聽贬补颈办耻颈听had started to enter the聽罢补颈飞补苍听Strait and head towards China,听罢补颈飞补苍‘s Central Weather Bureau said. It will continue to bring heavy rain across聽罢补颈飞补苍听into the middle of the week.
China’s national weather and ocean forecasters issued alerts early on Monday for听贬补颈办耻颈, warning of strong winds and large waves around coastal provinces Fujian and Guangdong and told ships to take precaution, Chinese state media reported. – Reuters
