【经济学人】Taiwan's typhoon：Taiwan's disastrous typhoon

杨威利

Taiwan's typhoon
Taiwan's disastrous typhoon
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14216808

Aug 13th 2009
From The Economist print edition

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The confirmed death toll in Taiwan caused by Typhoon Morakot, which first hit the island on August 6th, causing the worst floods since 1959, is bad enough. By the middle of this week, over 100 people were reported dead and more than 60 were missing. But there had been fears that 500 people had been buried alive in Hsiao Lin, a village in the wooded mountains of Taiwan’s south, and even more in remote neighbouring villages. These eased on August 12th, when almost 1,600 people were found alive by a 25-helicopter search mission. Survivors had not eaten for days and helicopters dropped provisions and began a slow evacuation, hampered by drenching rain. The army says it does not know how many people may have died there. The government faced criticism for not having arranged an evacuation as soon as it heard the typhoon was coming. “We should brace ourselves against typhoons as if they are an invading enemy,” said Chu Wen-sen, one of Taiwan’s leading water-management experts.

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