Tainan Cleans Up After Tropical Storm Co-May Brings Flooding, Landslides

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Southern Taiwan is picking up the pieces after Tropical Storm Co-may unleashed torrents of rain, triggering floods and landslides. Entire communities have been forced to evacuate, and daily life has ground to a halt as schools and businesses shut down.

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00:00Southern Taiwan is picking up the pieces after tropical storm Komei unleashed torrents of rain

00:05triggering floods and landslides. Many have been forced to evacuate and daily life has ground to

00:11a halt as schools and businesses shut down. Our reporter Irene Lin is near Tainan, the hardest

00:18hit area, and joins us live. Irene, what's the situation where you are? Hi, Laura. We're in

00:26Hobi Township in Tainan in one of the most impacted areas in southern Taiwan by the tropical storm

00:32Komei. Now, it has brought rocket-breaking rain just three weeks after Typhoon Janos tore through

00:39southern Taiwan, ripping off roofs and causing traffic halts in the city. Now, the tropical storm

00:45has moved on, but this part of Taiwan is still seeing on and off rains, and the floodwater has

00:51receded in the past 24 hours, but the wreckage from the pouring rain and the flooding on Monday

00:58can still be seen throughout the city. Now, since this morning, about a dozen military men have come

01:03in to assist with the cleanup. We saw them picking up fallen branches and picking up leaves that are

01:09clogging the drains to prevent further flooding. But on private properties, the local residents are

01:14left to clean up their own flooded homes themselves. We've been talking to some of the local residents

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01:54Now, this is the second time this month that schools and work were suspended due to bad weather in southern Taiwan.

02:01We're seeing an increasingly unpredictable storm path in this typhoon season.

02:06They're hitting parts of the west coast that are usually spared of the worst of storms.

02:13Thanks, Irene. That was Irene Lin reporting from southern Taiwan.

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