What the typhoon did to Taiwan

高屏舊鐵路橋橋墩遭洪流沖走
【中央社 記者陳守國高雄縣傳真】

高雄地區十九日晚上起大雨不斷，二十日更是傾盆大雨，跨越高屏溪的國定古蹟舊鐵路橋靠近高雄縣端的十一號橋墩被洪流沖走，鐵拱橋掛在橋邊，另一座鐵拱橋已不知去向。

(In the photo: the railway was watered away by the mighty torrent. )


石岡壩以每秒兩千公噸流量洩洪
【中央社 記者趙宏進台中縣攝】

海棠颱風帶來豪雨，台中縣大甲溪水暴漲，下游的石岡壩無法承接上游排下的豐沛水量，十五道閘門全開，二十日以每秒兩千公噸流量洩洪。
(In the photo: the Shi-Gun Dam was releasing the flood water by the rate of 2000 metric ton/sec on July 20th.)






連日豪雨　中縣和平鄉聯外橋斷　大甲溪暴漲搶救停擺
【東森新聞報 地方中心／中部綜合報導】

(in the photo: On the new-formed riverbed of Da-Jia River, a excavator was trying to make a way to let the mighty torrent rush down to downstream in order to build another bridge across the torrent.)






漂流木阻斷歸鄉路
【中央社 記者盧太城台東傳真】

滯留在綠島的一千六百多位遊客，原本可望在二十日清晨返回台東，無奈整個富岡港堆滿了漂流木，船隻無法入港。

(in the photo: the port was stuck by the drifting woods and there were more than 1600 tourists stuck in Green Island.)