Heavy Winds, Rain Persists As Typhoon Gaemi Leaves Taiwan

Taiwan is seeing heavy winds and rainfall in the wake of Typhoon Gaemi. Louise Watt reports from the northwest coast.

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00:00Now, the eye of the storm has left Taiwan and is on the way to China.

00:04Our reporter Louise Wat joins us now from Hsinchu in northwestern Taiwan with the latest.

00:09I'm at a fishing port that has now become a restricted area.

00:16The Coast Guard says that's for safety reasons because we're along the west coast.

00:21And it was here where Typhoon Kaimi left Taiwan early Thursday, bringing lots of rain and

00:27heavy winds.

00:29And it's still having an impact across Taiwan, particularly in mountainous areas in the center

00:34and the south of the country.

00:36Some of those areas saw more than a meter of rainfall.

00:41And the winds knocked down trees and power lines.

00:45Actually, more than half a million households across Taiwan lost power, although most of

00:50those are back online, according to the main power company here.

00:55The typhoon is still making its presence felt because all schools and offices have

01:02been closed across Taiwan on Thursday, apart from actually Taiwan's chip giant, TSMC, which

01:10is just a 20-minute drive away from here.

01:13It says that operations are continuing normally.

01:16But as you can see, today's not a great day for planes to be in the sky, and flights have

01:20been canceled for a second day in a row.

01:23185 international flights have been canceled and all domestic flights, so that's about

01:27another 200 flights.

01:31And trains are not running at the moment.

01:33They will be starting up again gradually from Thursday afternoon.

01:38So even though the typhoon has left Taiwan, the weather administration is warning people

01:45that it still poses a threat.

01:47And it's reminding people not to go to mountain areas because of the risk of landslides and

01:52falling rocks.