The typhoon had badly hit the northen and central part of Taiwan earlier this week. However the southern part was spared. Building collapsed , bridge sunked.. 20+ peoples lost their life...
I was not surprised but such news... 20+ yrs ago when I first arrived here. There were this busses which were called "wild chicken bus". At that time, the only legal long distance bus service was manned by govt. However there were bussiness man who run the illegal bus service. They uses 40+ passengers big bus ferrying passengers from south to north and vice versa. The police could have stopped them easily but no action was taken as people reps such as legislator had involved in the activities. This country had been well known for favor....
The hotel which was washed away by flood in the hot spring region had been built without a license and did not have proper infrastructure of steel /cement. And later in the TV, those illegel operator had condemned the authority for asking them to take down there illegal building. They plead that the act may make dampen their income. All I could say is "WTF!!!". There were 20 hotel/ L &B operator in that area and only 4 of them were legal. The rest of illegal and due to their irresponsible act of building without any environmental evaluation - the flood had taken away life.....
There were also a also a fire and rescue officer who had fallen into the flood while doing a search and rescue. Everything was recorded by the TV. 5 officers had used a rubber boat and tried to row in themself to nowhere in a flooded river. Part of the brigde was collaped and 3 cars had fallen. Only 1 body was found and 5 still missing. The families of the victims had condemned the search party that not enough effort was done. So I think the F and R department had tried to show their effort over air. The drift of current was so strong in the water and I don't think motorized boat could sail properly. Luckily the officer was saved 5 hrs later. I saw a scene of family "ordering" the party to search here and there just becoz they the fortune telling clamp had shown a 3 positive result. (One would pray and throw the fortune telling clamp , if the clamp
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