TAITUNG, Taiwan -- Taiwan woke up Monday to toppled trees, floods, and persistent rainfall after Typhoon Haikui made landfall on the island and swept overnight across its central mountain ranges.
It had initially appeared to leave the island, but made a second landfall early Monday morning in southwestern Kaohsiung, before it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm.
"I've lived here for so long and I have never seen such wind gusts," said Chen Hai-feng, 55, a village chief in Taitung's Donghe township, where he was with an early-morning work crew removing trees from a road. Tens of thousands of households temporarily lost power, though more than half had resumed by nightfall.
During the night"the centre of the typhoon was almost circling" Kaohsiung, but as it moved along the coastline"the structure of the typhoon is damaged by the terrain and gradually weakens", she said.
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