The Cyclone keeps a good part of Asia under alert.
A resident uses his mobile phone sitting on the roof of a house, while the water of a dam bursted by a landslide overflows and floods the Hualien area on September 23, 2025, as a consequence of the heavy rains caused by the Superfón Ragasa.
Taiwan authorities elevated fourteen the deceased on Wednesday And the disappeared by the overflow of a natural lake in Hualien’s county stood in 124as a consequence of the rains associated with the superstiphon.
The Disaster Response Center, cited by the official agency CNA, indicated that all the disappeared have registered direction and that Search teams, including firefighters, military and specialized rescuers, perform “Puerta per” verifications with the objective of establishing contact with all people throughout the day.
The center subcomandante, Hsiao Huan-Chang, explained that Floods present such a mud that “vehicles can barely access”which has required “the mobilization of a large number of military, police and firefighters.”
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The local Fire Department indicated that, of the fourteen fatalities, The majority were elderly who lived on the ground floor of Guangfu buildingsthe municipality most affected by floods.
According to local authorities, the overflow of the lake occurred between 2:50 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. (01:50 and 03:30 in Colombia) on Tuesday, When the natural dam of the Arroyo Matai’an Arroy and released a large water flow loaded with mud and rubble.
The flood destroyed the bridge over the ArroyOE quickly flooded the Urban Center of Guangfuwhere several streets were submerged to the level of the roofs in some areas.
Images disseminated by local media showed residents perched on roofs and vehicles to wait for help while water covered large areas of the municipality.
Hours before, the Central Emergency Operations Command (CEOC) had warned in a meeting that The natural lake of the stream, located in the neighboring town of Wanrong, could overflowwhich led to ordering evacuations, clean the channel and reinforce surveillance.
Hualien County is among the most beaten by the rains associated with the passage of the suptifón ragasa, which keeps under alert to much of southeast China and Taiwan.
The island’s central weather administration (CWA) issued alerts for “extremely torrential rains” – the maximum level of warning— for September 24 in Hualien and in the neighboring taitung county.
