Typhoon In Taiwan
A powerful typhoon surged across northern Taiwan on Saturday, killing at least one person and disrupting transportation and commerce around the island of 23 million people, before heading westward toward the heavily populated Chinese coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said that as of 8:30 a.m. Typhoon Soulik was at sea, just to the west of the Taiwanese city of Hsinchu. It was packing winds of 86 mph, down from the 100 mph winds it had boasted on making Taiwanese landfall around dawn, but still enough to threaten substantial dislocation and damage to property.
Torrential rains buffeted large areas of northern and central Taiwan, with Hsinchu and the neighboring county of Miaoli reporting totals of 27 to 31 inches by early Saturday.
Around Taipei and in its environs, emergency crews were struggling to restore power to the 520,000 homes where it had been disrupted, and to remove hundreds of trees uprooted by the storm from streets and roads.
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