It was another typhoon hit --- The 88 typhoon(Morakot, 8th of August) had hit us badly – leaving a flooded southern Taiwan. This year we had another worst one – the Fanapi which landed on the 19th of September.
It swept through the middle part of Taiwan but pouring an enormous amount of rain. Our hospital was almost flooded by it – according to the night shift staff, the water had flooded few cm below the doorstep. I was supposed to be working but my shift was changed so that I could attended the EMT’s CPR course in further south this Sunday(cancelled of coz after the typhoon, most the fireman was assigned to various place for the flood).
The rain/hr was greater than the Morak thus causing the flood. It was 15th of the 1Chinese calander (aka high tide day) and the estuary was flooded and unable to play it role of draining the flood.
 | the estuary was flooded....river had flooded the bridge and mud was left over after the flood. |
Lucky the rain did not continue and when I came to work the next day, the water had resolved leaving massive mud over the other side of the town. The part of town where our hospital was situated was spared from the mud. Darn lucky as everyone could come to work and no extra shift was needed.
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