Taiwan’s fire department reports the revised toll as school and office closures continue. Taipower says most of the more than 167,000 homes that lost electricity have been reconnected.
Taiwan’s fire department reported one death and 527 injuries from Typhoon Champi on 24 October. Taiwan’s Transport Ministry reported 259 flight cancellations that day, down from almost 1,000 on 23 October, as school and office closures continued.
The death toll remained unchanged, while the injury count rose from at least 350 reported by Al Jazeera on 23 October. The fire department said the man who died had been swept away by waves from Liuqiu island.
Flight cancellations continued on 24 October, but the Transport Ministry’s count was substantially lower than on 23 October.
| Date | Cancelled flights |
|---|---|
| 23 October | Almost 1,000 |
| 24 October | 259 |
About 280,000 households lost electricity, DW reported, citing Taiwan’s United Daily News. In the same account, electricity had been restored to 80% of affected households by the morning of 24 October.
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Large parts of northern and central Taiwan, including the capital, Taipei, declared a second day of school and office closures on 24 October.
Al Jazeera reported on 23 October that more than 4,300 people had been forced to evacuate their homes as Champi swept past Taiwan’s northeast, toppling trees. More than 400 millimetres of rain fell in Yilan County that day, and authorities instructed people to stay indoors.
Taiwan’s stock exchange closed because of severe weather on 23 October. Schools and offices shut, while nearly all businesses and shops were closed.
Hundreds of flights across East Asia were cancelled on 23 October, including more than 160 across four Japanese airlines. Nearly 8,400 households in Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture experienced power cuts, according to the local power company cited by the BBC.
Public transport in Taipei remained in operation at reduced capacity on 23 October. Residents installed sandbags and metal barriers in front of doors and windows to protect against flooding. Authorities positioned inflatable boats and amphibious vehicles, which can travel on land and water, around the island for rescue work.
Champi had already weakened before approaching Taiwan on 23 October, when DW reported gusts of about 190 kilometres per hour and a storm radius of about 320 kilometres, wide enough to cover most of the island. Central Weather Administration head Lu Kuo-chen warned that the storm could slow near Taiwan’s northeastern tip, prolonging its impact.
In its 23 October forecasts, the agency expected strong winds and extremely heavy rain through the first half of 24 October. It forecast up to 900 millimetres of rain between 22 and 24 October, with the northeast hardest hit, and expected rainfall to peak on the morning of 24 October and continue through the evening. The 900-millimetre figure was a forecast total, not measured rainfall.
By 24 October, the weather agency’s figures showed further weakening, with gusts near Champi’s centre of about 126 kilometres per hour. The agency placed the storm about 150 kilometres east of Taiwan after it brushed the northeast coast early that day. Its forecast track showed Champi turning north toward China’s coast before eventually moving into southern Japan.
On 24 October, Champi was continuing north toward China but was not expected to make landfall there. Chinese authorities sent a team to the eastern province of Zhejiang and warned of strong winds and heavy rain through 25 October.
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