Typhoon disrupts travel, cuts power to thousands of homes as it barrels northStaff writer, with AFP and CNATyphoon Chanthu yesterday unleashed powerful winds and heavy rain on eastern Taiwan, disrupting travel and cutting electricity to thousands of homes, but sparing the island a direct hit. Police officers remove a fallen tree from a road in Hualien County yesterday. The typhoon was packing sustained winds of up to 162kph, with gusts of up to 198kph, it said. People struggle to keep their umbrellas open among gusts of wind and rain brought by Typhoon Chanthu in Taipei yesterday. In a rare exception to the rule, not a single typhoon made landfall last year, the first time in 56 years.

Source: Taipei Times September 12, 2021 15:56 UTC