WPAC: TS MORAKOT (0908/09W/PAGASA: KIKO)

[JTE50]

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=tC6DAJUt

[Cookie]

very sad indeed.

[x-y-no]

BBC saying 600 to 800 missing ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8194460.stm

Hundreds of people are feared dead in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot triggered a mudslide that buried an entire village on the south-west coast.
Officials said about 600-800 people are missing in Shiao Lin village after part of the mountain collapsed on sleeping villagers' homes on Monday morning.
Most of the dead are thought to be the elderly and children.
Elsewhere in Taiwan, the number of confirmed deaths is 37, with 35 injured and 52 missing, officials said.
Typhoon Morakot dropped some 2m (80in) of rain on Taiwan this weekend, causing the worst flooding in decades.

[beaufort12]

this is certainly a historic storm. the news from the more remote areas of Taiwan continues to emerge, and it is very sad. this certainly reinforces what we know about tropical systems, the greatest danger is from the rain and the water.

[shah8]

Mitch, it's all about the Mitchtastic, and throw a mountain on a hapless village.

[HurricaneBill]

Another landslide, this time in China:

Typhoon-driven landslide topples apartment buildings in China

[Macrocane]

I remember Stan in 2005 when a landslide destroyed an entire town in Guatemala and there where 1000 deaths or so, certainly you don't need a very strong system to have a great disaster.

[vbhoutex]

Just listened to one of our members Typhoon Hunter(James Reynolds) talking to TWC about Morkat. The graphic they showed had 9.5 feet of rain in the mountains of Southern Taiwan!!

[JonathanBelles]

I'm glad I wasnt stuck under this thing. I send my prayers to anyone who was.

[wxmann_91]

Dudes, when you add together the slow movement of two large TC's, both originating from tropical monsoonal gyres, meandering due to Fujiwhara interaction, and basically combining that moisture with the orographic enhancement of 10,000+ foot mountains.... well this was a recipe for a major disaster.

[wyq614]

A dam failed in Zhejiang Province today, however, the expected heavy rain in my hometown Qingdao City has not arrived as the outer bands of Morakot continue staying in the Yellow Sea.

I'm in Qingdao now for my summer vacation.

[Typhoon Hunter]

Terrible news coming out of Taiwan right now and I expect the death toll to increasing significantly over the next few days.

Here are some picture my chase partner Dave Johnson shot after I left Taiwan:

[HurricaneBill]

100 feared buried alive, 62 die in typhoon-hit Taiwan

[Cookie]

its not good news at all, very sad

[Crostorm]

Taiwan's president criticized for typhoon response

CISHAN, Taiwan -- Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou sharply raised the expected death toll from Typhoon Morakot on Friday to more than 500, amid mounting criticism of his handling of the worst storm to strike the island in over 50 years.

http://www.fresnobee.com/world/story/1597731.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre57b ... n-mudsl8e/