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China Post
The eye of the latest typhoon was located 640 kilometers east of Oluanpi, Taiwan's southernmost tip, at 9:30 p.m. With maximum center winds of up to 191 kph, Talim's 250 km radius was moving west-northwest toward Taiwan at 21 kph.
Taoyuan County residents who were hit by acute water shortages in the wake of recent typhoons, started filling tanks and buckets with running water.
At a late night press conference, Economics Minister Ho Mei-yueh urged residents throughout the island to take same action.
Interior Minister Su Chia-chyuan said residents in low-lying areas and mountains prone to land and mud slides should move to higher places.
Many people in mountain regions already starting moving to homes of relatives or friends in the evening.
CWB officials said people areas subject to the threats of Talim include Taipei, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Nantou, Hualien, Ilan, Taitung, Green Island, and Lanyu (Orchid Island).
HEFEI, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Torrential rains and landslides caused by typhoon Talim have claimed 53 lives and left 12 others missing in east China's Anhui Province, provincial official sources said Sunday.
Typhoon-inflicted disasters have affected some 5.21 million people, forcing the relocation of more than 390,000 residents, according to the provincial production and disaster relief office.
The disasters also destroyed 33,600 residential houses, damaged 102,000 houses and affected more than 313,000 hectares of cropland in the province, incurring 2.4 billion yuan (290 million US dollars) in direct losses.
The provincial government has launched an emergent disaster relief scheme in a bid to help restore the local people's life, including rescue of the injured, epidemic prevention, resuming production and rebuilding residential houses.
Originally posted by worldwatcher
Death toll from typhoon Talim rises to 53 in Anhui
HEFEI, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Torrential rains and landslides caused by typhoon Talim have claimed 53 lives and left 12 others missing in east China's Anhui Province, provincial official sources said Sunday.
Typhoon-inflicted disasters have affected some 5.21 million people, forcing the relocation of more than 390,000 residents, according to the provincial production and disaster relief office.
The disasters also destroyed 33,600 residential houses, damaged 102,000 houses and affected more than 313,000 hectares of cropland in the province, incurring 2.4 billion yuan (290 million US dollars) in direct losses.
The provincial government has launched an emergent disaster relief scheme in a bid to help restore the local people's life, including rescue of the injured, epidemic prevention, resuming production and rebuilding residential houses.
Originally posted by worldwatcher
My story title??? "Death toll from typhoon Talim rises to 53 in Anhui" dramatizes the event???
HUH??? 53 people dead dying in hurricane is 53 too many.
and I don't think the people in Taiwan affected would feel it was piece of cake. You cannot start comparing every disaster to Katrina, it doesn't make sense.
[edit on 9-4-2005 by worldwatcher]
origin
Hurricane Linda achieves status as strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Eastern Pacific (Category 5; gusts to 220; sustained winds of 200 mph) [Schroeder/Bassett note: This event exceeded Category 5 by such an extent that a new Category 6 is suggested.] The 10 meter pounding surf from the hurricane sweeps five people off a beach. When the hurricane eventually strikes land in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Thailand, 150,000 buildings are destroyed, 3000 people are missing, and the confirmed death toll at 587. ("Weather Wise", The Independent, London, November 17, 1997, Features, page 10) ("Earthwatch: Diary of the Planet", Los Angeles Times, Metro, Part B, page 2, Metro Desk) Almost $. 5 billion in damages resulted.
Super Typhoon Keith with gusting winds to 220 mph hits the Mariana Islands. ("Earth Changes Report", October 27 to November 8, December 1997 edition, page 5, by Gordon Michael Scallion)
The Trade winds which normally blow from east to west in the Pacific have stopped and reversed direction to blow from west to east as a result of El Nino. This has already happened three times, an all time record for an El Nino. Ocean currents have also been disrupted. The heated water forms a bulge from a few inches to twenty inches over hundreds of miles with resulting water currents in the millions of gallons per minute. (October, 1997)
When Typhoon Joan hit the North Marian Islands, it was packing winds of 185 miles per hour with gusts to 225 miles per hour, making it one of the most powerful ever recorded in the Western Pacific Ocean. (AP on-line, October 19, 1997, International News, 22:39 Eastern daylight time)