Tag: typhoon

TAITUNG: Typhoon Haikui toppled hundreds of trees, damaged coastal roads, and dumped torrential rains across Taiwan Monday before it weakened into a severe storm and headed for southern China.Haikui had initially appeared to depart the island but made a second landfall early Monday in southwest Kaohsiung, before it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm as it moved out into the Taiwan Strait.There were no reports of deaths, but destruction was seen in coastal Taitung, a mountainous county in lesser-populated eastern Taiwan where the storm directly hit the...