Walls of rain flood northern centers

Three cars immersed in water next to the No. 5 Floodgate on Taipei's Fuyuan Street beside the Keelung River are barely visible yesterday after a night of torrential rain. The sign on the left of the picture reads ``No swimming.''
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Powerful downpours and strong winds lashed the nation yesterday, flooding urban centers in the north and threatening to cause landslides in central mountainous areas, even as the Central Weather Bureau issued a new typhoon warning.

The deluge, the heaviest since Typhoon Nari three years ago, claimed one life and left hundreds stranded at press time yesterday.

Houses in Nangang District in Taipei and adjacent Hsichih in Taipei County were swallowed up by muddy water. Sanchung in Taipei County was again hard hit by flooding. People waded across roads in chest-high water in front of their shops and low-rise apartments. Cars plowed through streets in a desperate effort to reach higher ground.

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Normally this would be FA but with all the other severe storms constantly occurring all over the world why doesn't Kerry bring up the cost of global warming (pollution in the atmosphere) and compare to sane measures now compared to the cost of the storms destructions?

warming up the ocean. Where is Bob when you need him.

A rescue worker tied to a life-line yesterday crosses a turbulent stream widened by mudslides and rainwater to rescue people trapped on the other side.
PHOTO: TSAI MENG-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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At least seven people are feared dead in floods and a landslide triggered by Typhoon Haima that is dumping torrential rain across northern Taiwan, officials said yesterday.

Rock and earth loosened by five days of downpours swept away three houses and buried a family of four, including a 12-year-old boy, in mountainous Hsinchu County, the same region that had been devastated by Typhoon Aere last month.

"We've already found three bodies, including an elderly couple and their son. We are still looking for the fourth person, who is missing," a spokesman for the Hsinchu fire department said.

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