Overview
- Heavy rain triggered neck-deep floods in eastern Yilan and Hualien, with more than 1,000 homes inundated in Suao and rainfall totals up to 794 millimeters in Dongshan.
- Taiwan’s National Fire Agency reported at least 51 injuries, while closures covered cities including Kaohsiung, Taichung and Tainan, and dozens of flights were canceled.
- The system, downgraded from a super typhoon, was about 140 kilometers southwest of Taiwan on Wednesday morning and is forecast to graze the southern tip before moving back out to sea.
- In the Philippines, Fung-wong made landfall as a super typhoon, causing at least 27 deaths with landslides and flash floods and displacing more than 1.4 million people, including over 623,000 still in evacuation centers.
- Filipino community groups abroad and the Philippine Red Cross are mobilizing donations and relief as questions over preparedness and past flood-control projects persist.