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Typhoon
Soudelor
KILLS DOZEN
in China
AT least a dozen people have died and five are missing Hualien. One city in northern Taiwan saw a wind gust the typhoon made its way across the Pacific Ocean.
in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou in the wake of measured at 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per Storm chaser James Reynolds spoke said that
Typhoon Soudelor, according to the state-run Xinhua hour). ferocious winds and blinding rain hit as the storm
news agency, which cited local disaster management Soudelor pounded Taiwan on Saturday with made landfall. Huge waves battered the coastline,
officials. sustained winds of 52 miles per hour, the center said. causing “a lot of flying debris, a lot of tree damage
It was one of the strongest storms anywhere in the Meteorologists said that Taipingshan received 40 and along the coastal areas, the waves had inundated
world so far this year, with peak winds at 180 miles inches of rain in two days. the low-lying areas, damaging the roads in places as
per hour, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning well as some vulnerable properties which were right
Center. The West Pacific Basin has seen 10 typhoons Earlier in the weekend, Taiwan’s National Fire Agency by the coast,” he said.
so far this year. said at least 185 people were injured. Video footage showed rescue workers struggling to
Soudelor made landfall Saturday night in the city of Those killed in Taiwan included a mother and her make their way through surging, thigh-high waters.
Putian, in China’s southern Fujian province. More 8-year-old daughter swept out to sea, the nation’s Many communities suffered mudslides and flooding.
than 185,000 people moved to higher ground, Xinhua Central News Agency reported, adding that the girl’s More than 725,000 homes were still without
reported. The typhoon weakened as it moved inland twin sister is missing. electricity Saturday night, with emergency crews
toward the northwest. Authorities deployed more than 35,000 military working to restore supply, according to state power
Earlier Saturday, it hit Taiwan north of the city of personnel to relocate residents in vulnerable areas as provider Taiwan Power Co.
EPA: AN Environmental Protection Agency
official says she doesn’t believe wildlife
NO HEALTH RISKS to wildlife will suffer significant health impacts
after Colorado mine spill from the large volume of wastewater
that spilled from an abandoned mine
in southwestern Colorado.
The EPA also said Sunday the amount
of wastewater that spilled from
Colorado’s Gold King Mine into the
Animas River is three times larger than
its initial estimate. The agency says 3
million gallons spilled into the river
Wednesday and Thursday, instead of
1 million. The revision came after the
EPA used a stream gauge from the U.S.
Geological Survey.
EPA toxicologist Deborah McKean says
the sludge laced with heavy metals
moved so quickly after the spill that it
would not have harmed animals that
consumed it.
The EPA still doesn’t know if there are
any health risks posed to people or
aquatic life.
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