Residents of Taiwan's northeastern Yilan County are cleaning up after Typhoon Kong-rey struck on Thursday. Heavy winds and rain uprooted trees and blew billboards away, leaving a path of destruction in the streets.
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00:00Here in Ilan County, the government has ordered most people back to work and school today,
00:05but for many, their normal life is not back quite yet.
00:08For example, this family that usually sells bumper cars is instead spending their day
00:13cleaning up these fallen trees after Typhoon Kongrei.
00:17The storm brought over one meter of rainfall over the past 24 hours in this area and strong
00:22winds over 100 kilometers per hour, which caused major damage, especially to trees.
00:28Now this is an area that's been extensively hit by landslides caused by that heavy rain
00:33and it's also brought road closures.
00:35And now today, that's all starting to reopen.
00:38Residents told me that yesterday, the wind was especially strong in the afternoon that
00:42knocked down hundreds of trees in the area, which caused the most damage.
00:47Although the storm has passed, residents say that it'll take more than a day to recover
00:51from this after what they hope will be the last typhoon of the season.
00:55I'm Thomas Rui and Tiffany Wong in Ilan County for Taiwan Plus.