Kong-rey is not the perfect storm (going too fast, re current forecasts), though gusting up to 165kts (305km!!!) ... it's a bloody good one. Thing is, it's coming as Taitung's crowning act in The Perfect Season.

1000+ mil from Krathon, another drenching from Trami just a week ago, now a direct hit from: Super Typhoon Kong-rey.

Winds: incredible - Cat 5. Major destruction territory.

Rain: Heavy already, (for Taitung) but in terms of the eye-wall rush-hours, shortish (a few hours) but very, very sharp - landslide triggering sharp.

The sat-image indicates an extremely torrential body of rain in a thick central structure.
It doesn't have a massive feed-in trailing it, & it's moving quite fast .. supposedly. Typhoons do funny things when they hit mountains.

Predicted to re-curve gang-gang hao in the Taiwan Strait. Which will allow it to maintain some strength - enough to dump its payload of rain on the way out the door.

As normal, it will be the whole east coast & then Kaohsiung-Pingtung in the second act.

Don't wanna be alarmist - but - doing my DIY algorithim thing - Taitung east coast is currently rated as: historically high risk of catastrophic impacts