Like I've said many times before, all we can do is prepare and respond to Mother Nature. None of us has Super Human powers. This Taiwan president has been told there is a potential natural threat on the horizon. He is doing the right thing and warning the public at large to prepare to seek safety as the local authorities prepare for a possible natural assault on their country. Thank God this president doesn't take warnings of any kind lightly at the expense of the Taiwanese people. This is what it means to SERVE the people.
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Earth Times
written by dpa
Saturday September 18, 2010 at 02:24:43 GMT
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday instructed local authorities to prepare for evacuations and to secure areas against Typhoon Fanapi, which was gaining strength as it approached the island.
The army was standing by in Hualien on the east coast, where Fanapi was expected to make landfall early Sunday, the first typhoon to hit Taiwan directly this year.
By 9 am (0100 GMT), the eye of Fanapi was 450 kilometres east Taiwan, and heading west at 15 kilometres per hour (km/h), the Central Weather Bureau said.
The storm was packing centre winds of 155 km/h and gusts of up to 191 km/h.
The bureau issued a land warning on Saturday, after issuing a sea warning late Friday. The bureau expects the typhoon's circle to reach Taiwan late Saturday, and typhoon itself to hit land early Sunday.
In August last year, Typhoon Morakot battered the island for two days, leaving about 650 people dead and causing damage estimated at 3.3 billion US dollars in one of the worst storms of recent years.
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