#東港 — Public Fediverse posts
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A few scenes from yesterday evening and last night around town.
Quite a lot of trees are down and lots of infrastructure and buildings are damaged, so it’s going to take a while before things get back to normal.
Still, the town is incredibly busy at the moment due to the festival tonight, when the boat will be taken down to the beach and set alight.
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The typhoon is gone now and clean up efforts are well underway. They actually started immediately last night when the wind was low enough, with everyone venturing out and starting to do what they could.
We got power back last night as well, although some areas of town are still in darkness tonight. Internet is flaky and 台灣大哥大 cell towers are mostly offline, but some other providers survived and are now swamped with usage due to #東港迎王, which has been powering ahead today!
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Well it turns out to be essentially a direct hit…
Power is out and we’re currently bracing the front roller door to stop it popping in like the store’s next door.
Lots of big signs down and building damage. Our relatives in Kaohsiung have lost the roof of their house 😶
It’s going to be a huge clean up effort and #東港迎王 has really been messed up too!
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This is right between a school and a park that’s popular with families. It’s not like the whole town is this bad, but sometimes concentrations of rubbish like this randomly develop.
If you look closely you can see the flecks in the gutter are cigarette butts, which are ubiquitous here.
It’s odd to me that there’s such great community responsibility and care about some things, but littering can simultaneously be an enduring problem.
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I laughed when I saw that they launched this in 東港, because this place has to be the most in dire need of it, thanks to the dirty behaviour of so many 八加九
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg3QJHsGD58
Here’s an example when I was walking last night… (just a street from where the news item shows them picking up rubbish)
巡 倒 清 刷 indeed... 😬
(aside: whenever I see someone online comment that they visited 台灣 and it was so clean, I know they didn’t stray far from 台北)