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On August 8, 2009, Typhoon Morakot invaded Taiwan, historical volume of rainfall dropped on southern Taiwan, amazing single-day rainfall over 1,000 mm and the cumulative rainfall of 2,500 mm or more, creating a new record of rainfall in Taiwan. During Typhoon Morakot attacking, it caused Taiwan's largest flood in last 100 years, half of the island was submerged in water, resulting in a number of bridges were washed away, and countless railway and highway were disconnected, many mountain villages were destroyed overnight. Loss of life, property and agriculture is extremely miserable. There are over 600 people killed in this tragedy. The total losses and damage of agricultural products and civilian infrastructure are estimated up to 16.4 billion NT dollars. This event is historically called as "Eighty-eight Flood". Because of large accumulated rainfall on Kaoping Hsi upstream, Provincial Highway No.17 Shuangyuan Bridge, located at the downstream of Kaoping Hsi, was collapsed around 2:00 AM on August 9. The flow rate was up to 34,000 cubic meters per second, which was over 200 years flood return period of Kaoping Hsi. In addition, due to the impact of flowing wood, Shuangyuan Bridge on Kaohsiung side was washed away about 460 meters overnight (northbound P1-P14 and southbound P1-P16). Although the bridge management unit closed the bridge immediately, still ten people in six cars were killed in this bridge collapsing accident. |
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