In Pingtung, Tsai met with residents of Jiadong Township (佳冬), which was flooded with waist-deep water, as military personnel delivered food and other supplies to residents stranded in three of the township’s villages. Jiadong residents appealed for help restoring power and solving the flood problem, and Tsai told them that water pumps were being sent from Kaohsiung. Premier Lin Chuan (林全) also traveled south to visit disaster areas in Kaohsiung, where hundreds of thousands of households were still without power or water and about 4,000 roadside trees were downed. Schools and offices yesterday remained closed in Pingtung County, Kaohsiung, parts of Taitung County, Kinmen and Penghu. There were still about 400,000 households without power and more than 360,000 without water yesterday morning, according to the government statistics.

Source: Taipei Times September 15, 2016 15:56 UTC