Typhoon Soudelor, is currently a large and weakening tropical cyclone impacting Taiwan and East China, which was recently the most intense tropical cyclone of the Northern Hemisphere in 2015 and struck the Northern Mariana Islands.
The center of the storm made landfall in eastern Taiwan at 4:40 a.m. Saturday. By mid-morning, Soudelor was packing maximum sustained winds of 162 kilometers (100 miles) per hour, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau. Between midnight Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, Taiping Mountain in eastern Taiwan’s Yilan County topped all regions with an accumulated rainfall of 1,099 millimetres (43.3 in).
Soudelor is strong enough to shake this tall apartment building.
Swinging with #soudelor. Strong enough to shake the tall apartments. #typhoon #soudelortyphoon #tienmu pic.twitter.com/cRqc7Otiph
— Haluk Balkan (@twtreis) August 7, 2015
Flying scooter
Mudslides and flash flood.
“Taoyuan Luofu village outbreak mudslides, film exposure. Fuxing District Louvre in Taoyuan City outbreak mudslides, other users noted that the current high Zhihong known landslides buried about 10 were no casualties, users Jianglong also means people are safe now in the Louvre Events Center.” – translated to English
Bouncing jumbo airplane and other street devastation.
Devastation*