I think you find that kaohsiung is more like 350 km away from Taipei not 200 km and as we know very well Southern Taiwan has been hit hard, I think most of you are posting based on what news you have seen off the BBC or CNN who did not even start reporting the sitautaion in depth until after the event. If you had been anywhere between Taichung and Taipei you will have known how bad it was and further more no one in their right mind would leave millions of dollars worth of equipments in the path of that typhoon or even consider flying anywhere near it. The Taiwan government website was giving detailed information on the power of those winds 2 days before it was close to making land and if I had any choice on where to leave my companies equipment overnight it most certainly would not have been anywhere near the whole of Taiwan