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It's going to strike us directly. We must be fully prepared,
said fisherman Chen Ming-huang, as he tightened ropes on his boat in Kaohsiung harbor We've got torches and emergency food supplies,
The storm surge might bring tides inland,
We will have only a few minutes to react if the flooding is coming,
said Chiu Yun-ping, deputy head of the building's residents' committee After the typhoon, the whole of Kaohsiung was without water and electricity, just like a war,
Chen said, recalling the decades-ago destruction The path of Krathon is relatively rare, entering from the south and exiting from the east. Therefore we must be particularly vigilant,
he said at a government briefing We need to be very careful as this typhoon must be very strong,
Since the tide is high, we have put up water barriers,
The wind is so strong, it is like an earthquake,
The impact is getting bigger and bigger,
said Gene Huang, forecaster at the CWA, pointing to threats to Taiwan's southwest and adding