No use Taiwan!

Lower thirds:

00.02 Report by Rik Glauert
00:26 Lee Hsiang-lan | Guangfu resident
01:34 Chen Chien-tsun | Hualien County government

Script:

0:00

VO1 (Files: Guangfu Broll. Shots of town devastation, cars upturned people clearing up)

The clean up has only just begun here in Taiwan’s Guangfu town ... reeling from massive flooding from typhoon Ragasa...

0:12

NSNS (perhaps you can use NS of Ms Lee or other nice NS from the brolls)

VO2 (Use File: Ms Lee BROLL)

It’s a back -breaking job for residents like 61-year-old Ms. Lee ... clearing her bakery of mud and debris brought down the mountain by a barrier lake which broke its banks—a disaster many here say could have been predicted.

0:30

SOT1 (File: Ms Lee SOT)
Insert: Lee Hsiang-lan, Resident

If something can be prevented, you should do everything to prevent it. But I don’t know what the situation is. We heard announcements on the radio telling us to evacuate—it sounded very serious—but this problem has existed for a long time.

I saw the issue long before.

Why didn’t the politicians properly learn and handle it so these things could be avoided as much as possible?

0:56

VO 2 (Use Guangfu Broll)

The floodwaters have barely left any of the town untouched NSNS killing more than a dozen here and forcing hundreds from their homes, with the army called in to help with the clean up.

1:09 

PTC – Rik Glauert (File: Report VO) Some of these scenes are not that uncommon here in Taiwan — on an island prone to earthquakes and hit by typhoons most summers … and one that prides itself on being prepared for extreme weather. But Taiwan avoided a direct hit from Super Typhoon Ragasa, casualties and missing are concentrated in this one area of the island.

1:34 

VO 3 (b roll of the lake)

Taiwan’s government had been monitoring the dangerously high water levels of the lake, but warnings fell short—evacuations were not mandatory, and many residents were caught off guard.

1:45

SOT 2 （File： Hualien Govt SOT)
Chen Chien-tsun, Hualien Country Govt

So perhaps a small number of residents didn’t receive reminders from government agencies at the time. I think in the future the government in Taiwan will strengthen this aspect—enhancing all possible alerting tools and measures to prevent such things from happening again.

2:08 

VO 4 (File: Shelter.. Sorry there is not a lot we were restricted from filming people)

For now, and despite the efforts on the streets ...

... many face another night away from home sheltering in local churches and schools.

END