Typhoon Fung-wong brought heavy rains to Hualien on Taiwan's east coast on Tuesday, November 11, flooding an area that already saw 18 people killed by an earlier typhoon in September. Taiwan evacuated more than 3,000 people on Tuesday, issuing a land warning for the arrival of Fung-wong, which is expected to dump large volumes of rain on its mountainous east coast, recently lashed by another typhoon. The weakening Fung-wong is forecast to hit land on Wednesday on the island's southwestern coast

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Drone footage on Wednesday, Nov. 12 showed vast areas of Taiwan’s largely rural eastern county of Yilan inundated after Typhoon Fun-wong brought excessive downpours ahead of its expected landfall. Reuters was able to independently verify the location of the video through the road layout, bridge and buildings, which matched file and satellite images. Reuters was able to verify the date of the footage from the original file metadata. The island’s fire department said about 8,300 people were moved