Have chatted to friends there, seen some pics of the damage - seems it was relatively short but plenty sharp.

Lot of damage to Brian & Minshu's Highway-11 bar/shop (again) - pretty much everyone is looking at some kind of damage. A few people got caught out by the electricity going out quite early in the piece - meaning they couldn't close their metal shutters - so a lot of water inside houses.

Power is still out & guess it will be out all night.

But everyone is ok - just sucks having to do that clean-up work - it can take weeks of (unpaid) work to get things back in order.

Top rainfall is 550 mm in Hualien - no surprise the biggest rain is always north of the eye on the east coast & south of it on the west coast. Remains to be seen where the tail rain ends up but probably mid to north Taiwan.

Now that the eye is nearly across the island - pretty much right over Kaohsiung - the southwest coast is copping it. Pingdong always cops it somehow.

Until it hits China coast (at least another 24 hrs) & loses some drawing power, it will continue dragging rain across through its tail, so i'd expect a wet night for many areas.