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Supertyphoon Krosa Nears Taiwan, Grounding Flights (Update3)By Chinmei Sung found at bloomberg.com Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Supertyphoon Krosa approached Taiwan with wind speeds as high as 227 kilometers (141 miles) per hour, grounding more than 100 flights, causing floods in Taipei and power blackouts for at least 170,000 households. Krosa was about 30 kilometers north-northeast of the eastern coastal town of Hualien at 4 p.m., Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said on its Web site. The eye of the storm is expected to be about 70 kilometers offshore from Taipei at 2 a.m. tomorrow, the agency said. The 17th storm of the northwest Pacific cyclone season caused flooding in low-lying areas of Taipei and prompted China Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and other carriers to cancel flights. Tourists were also evacuated from coastal areas in eastern China ahead of Krosa's approach. At least three people suffered injuries in Taiwan because of the supertyphoon, according to the island's National Fire Agency. TVBS News, a TV channel, broadcast pictures of flooding in the north of Taipei. Power had been restored to 100,000 households that were cut off, Philip Liang, a fire agency spokesman, said by telephone. He was unable to say when the other 70,000 would be re-connected. The blackouts were spread across the island. Moving Northwest Krosa was moving northwest at 12 kilometers per hour and is expected to be 250 kilometers north of Yilan at 2 p.m. tomorrow, according to the Taiwan weather agency. Yilan is about 50 kilometers southeast of Taipei. Most of the canceled flights were from Taiwan to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong or Macau, according to a statement on the Ministry of Transportation and Communications' Web site. Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's largest carrier, suspended all flights to and from Taipei until 2 p.m. tomorrow, it said in a statement. Its Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd. unit axed 11 flights today, according to a separate statement. Tourists were evacuated from costal islands in eastern China's Zhejiang and Fujian provinces in anticipation of Krosa's approach, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, citing local meteorological and tourism offices. Victims of Storm Victims of the storm in Taiwan include a 62-year-old man, who broke his left leg while watching waves, according to a statement posted on the Web site of the National Fire Agency. A 66-year-old woman in Taipei suffered minor lacerations from broken glass and another woman was bruised after being blown off her scooter, the statement added. The storm prompted the island's weather bureau to issue a land alert early yesterday. Such an alert, which warns of landslides, falling rocks and floods, is issued when a typhoon with projected winds of at least 52 kilometers per hour is expected to hit land within 18 hours. Typhoons and tropical storms frequently lash Taiwan during the northern hemisphere's summer. Krosa is the Cambodian word for a species of crane, according to the Hong Kong Observatory's Web site. To contact the reporter on this story: Chinmei Sung in Taipei at csung4@bloomberg.net . Last Updated: October 6, 2007 05:16 EDT
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