just how things turn out to be in reality and stop relying on the news and medias surronding us with an overload of information. The first set of pictures is taking me back to Taidong within two days, two evenings, one afternoon and one very morning, passing through Yilan, Hualian and then directly to that town that was undirectly hit because neither the typhoon landed there nor the heaviest rains happened to take place there, but still its vicinity and people suffered severe damages and lost habitations plus a few lives. As for the everyday life even larger influence occured for the whole district as the railway line got separated from its closest southern link with Pingdong and Gaoxiung, the biggest living areas of the south. The road and the intercity connection was about to restart after mending a few junctions but it was not the case yet at the time of my arrival. I was then ready to stay there for a few days knowing or having known a few persons if not friends directly in Taidong city. The sets of pict start with the line of Mass Rapid Transit Railways from Danshui to Xindian to land directly on the Suao-Hualian highway ( totally left without damages at its medium limit, Nan Ao "South Bay"), one of the most scenic area of the whole island if not enjoyed during reconstruction period with other preoccupations in mind. The fact that struck me was that the creeks were already dry in that part after ten days of such a disastrous typhoon sweeping the south, just to remind that Taiwan as different areas which even if closely related can be very different in climate and geography. This is also a particularity of any typhoon hits if not this one especially.
Photo details: Monday, August 17, 2009, 8:52:58 PM
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