Typhoon Dujuan crashed into Taiwan on Monday with winds equivalent to those of a category four hurricane. One weather station near the eye reported wind gusts of 153 MPH during the height of the storm. The typhoon also produced more than two feet of rain,forcing the evacuation of thousands for panic of landslides and flooding, closing schools and businesses, and even triggering a water outage for more than a million people in the Taipei area.
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