Mudflow risk remains high, with more than 260 rivers listed at red alert and 660 at yellow alert.
Chiayi's Fenchihu (奮起湖) received the most rain from Krosa -- a total of 1,112mm, while Ilan's Taipingshan (太平山) had 1,072mm and Hsinchu's Niaotsuishan (鳥嘴山) had 1,013mm.
The strongest wind was reported in Suao (
Meanwhile, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) said yesterday the city would look into the mudslide that killed Chiu Chang-chi to see if the neighboring area needed to be evacuated.
Hau said Chiu's family had told him that the slide might have been caused by a retaining wall put up by a man who built a nearby restaurant.
Chiu Chang-chi's older brother, Chiu Lai-huo (
Chiu Chang-chi's wife Chiu Chang-tsao (
Hau said the Chiu family had filed two complaints with the city government, but the complaints had nothing to do with the mudslide.
He said the government would investigate whether administrative negligence had contributed to the accident, but he said dereliction of duty charges against former mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) were wrong.
"First, I think former mayor Ma was ignorant of the complaints, and second, the landslide accident had nothing to do with him," Hau said.
Typhoon Krosa also devastated crops all over the country, knocking over everything from bananas in Nantou to betel nut trees in Hualien.
The Council of Agriculture said that as of 5pm yesterday, about NT$748 million (US$22.9 million) in damage had been tallied so far, but that figure was expected to rise.
The council said 13,283 hectares of farmland were damaged, with an average crop destruction rate of 20 percent, meaning that the equivalent of 2,630 hectares had been destroyed.
While banana and rice crops were the most heavily hit, persimmon, guava, papaya and grape farms were also damaged.
Although the council did not release any figures on leafy vegetables, vendors said yesterday prices for greens will rise.
At a discount fruit and vegetable store on Dingzhou Road in Taipei, cabbage rose to NT$49 per 600g.
The massive amount of rainfall have provided an unusual windfall for a lucky few.
Cable network TVBS showed footage of people "harvesting" fish at Taipei County's riverside park.
The Sindian river overflowed into the park's grounds and then receded, stranding the fish.
While some people interviewed doubted that the fish were safe to eat, others gathered as many as they could, arguing that the fish had probably come from the Feitsui Dam and were therefore safe to consume.
Additional reporting by AFP
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