Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Taiwan flood caused by Morakot, the worst typhoon in 50 years






Typhoon Morakot has caused massive damage in Chiayi City of Taiwan and it killed more than 500 people from mud slides and the flood. As you can see, this is a girl who was rescued. She looks like as if she was a victim of a mudslide. Typhoon Morakot rained 2 and a 1/2 meters of water every two days in Taiwan. Since Taiwan has a lot of mountains, the flood rose up instead of spreading out. After that, it rained on the mountains while passing through the ground and its rock . Once the water passes through the ground and rock, both of them become slippery and then it creates a mudslide which kills or bury the people on the bottom of the mountain alive. The reason why Taiwan gets a lot of typhoons is because it's not near the equator like Indonesia and Papua New Guinea or maybe it's because of Global Warming and also, it makes the people sad because some or all of their family relatives died from the typhoon. It also destroyed a major hotel and if Taiwan wasn't mountainous, there would be less deaths.




1 comment:

Michael said...

Nice work on this, Rgee. You described the situation well, plus made a fine effort to address the two learning standards we were striving for. Keep up the good work.