Typhoon Doug follows hot on the heels of Typhoon Caitlin which rips through eastern and central Taiwan, killing eight people, cutting major roads, and setting off floods and landslides. Doug kills more than 20 people, brings the heaviest rains in 30 years, maroons 15,000 people in the central mountains region and floods large areas of the southern port city of Kaohsiung. More than 12,000 hectares of crops are damaged. Typhoon Gladys follows, killing more people, flooding the northeast and sinking an Indian cargo ship. Total losses from August's typhoons reach NT$9.39billion, with Typhoon Doug ringing in at NT$6.1billion. ("Typhoon kills eight, four missing in Taiwan", Reuter, 3 August 1994; "Typhoon maroons thousands in Taiwan mountains", Reuter, 12 August 1994; "Food airlifted to rain-hit mountain people", Associated Press, 12 August 1994; "Typhoons do decade-record crop damage in Taiwan", Reuter, 18 August, 1994; "Heaviest rain in 30 years hits south Taiwan, killing nine", Deutsche Press-Agentur, 14 August 1994; "Taiwan: total losses from four typhoons put at over NT$9 billion", 24 August 1994; "Typhoon Gladys kills six in Taiwan", Reuter, 1 September 1994).
GREENPEACE Climate Impacts Database