People were evacuated from high-risk areas and businesses closed in preparation for the storm. Read more at straitstimes.com.
unleashing torrential downpours, whipping up winds and plunging thousands of households into darkness as the first major storm to hit the island directly in four years.
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau confirmed to AFP that the typhoon made landfall at 3:40 pm local time in coastal Taitung, a mountainous county in lesser-populated eastern Taiwan. By 9pm , Haikui had weakened to “moderate intensity” and was near Taiwan’s southwestern Kaohsiung city, carrying sustained winds of about 126kmh, said a Central Weather Bureau forecaster during a briefing.
A fishing harbour in northeastern coastal Yilan county saw towering waves slam against the shore, as residents huddled under umbrellas to shield themselves from unrelenting sheets of rainfall. In Taitung, ripped-up trees already littered the streets before Haikui landed, street signs swayed under the strong winds and a restaurant owner tied down his sign advertising seafood.
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