Typhoon Talim, Update
According to the Taipei Times, Typoon Talim has been battering Taipei since yesterday afternoon.
It is expected that rainfall in the mountainous areas in southern counties such as Kaohsiung and Pingtung, will exceed 1,000mm. In the north, accumulative rainfall exceeding 700mm is expected.
If my calculations are correct 1000mm is equal to 39.37 inches of rain. Officials are concerned that rainfall could trigger
potentially devastating disasters, such as floods and mudflows, in not only the northern parts of the nation but also the south.
Bloomberg says maximum sustained winds near the center of Talim are 144 kph.
In preparation for landfall in Fuzhou, China The provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters have relocated 286,000 people…
While this a powerful typhoon and knocked out power to 1.2 million homes and cut off water supplies to 620,000, it doesn’t appear to have caused the destruction to homes that Katrina has. It is, however, the 13th typhoon to strike Taiwan in the last year. Maybe there is nothing left to destroy!
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