Village cut off for six days faces food shortage / 利稻村對外交通6天受阻 糧食快要用完　　　　　　　　　　

Nonstop torrential rain in the east coast have caused mudslides and landslides along the rail and road access to Taitung, resulting heavy traffic on the South-link Highway during the last day of the Double Ten National holiday. Meanwhile, access to HaiduanTownship's Lidao Village has been cut off for 6 days and residents are facing food shortages. The extremely heavy rains caused traffic termination, the Lidao Village in Haiduan Township was facing food shortage. Taitung County Government called for an emergency air lift of food, medicines and three medical staff. Taitung County had five consecutive days of extremely heavy rains; the South-link Highway had a total of 21 mudslides. The traffic was terminated. In the last day of the national holidays, the Highway had traffic jam of five kilometers. ==RESIDENT== (How do you get home?) Just wait. ==TRUCK DRIVER== Not sure if the road is blocked or something. ==RESIDENT== I still need to write my homework. On the railway, the Taimali Section of the South-link Line also suffered from mudslides. The line was resumed in the morning, however by noon time, Hsin-chi Tunnel No.2 had another mudslide causing rail deformation. ==YANG CHIH-BIN, Taitung Sec. Leader, TRA== The cause to the rail deformation is the landslide. There was a landslide. The Taiwan Railways Administration made its decision around 3pm, calling engineers to escort the train through the tunnel at very slow speed under safe conditions. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN 受到豪大雨交通中斷影響，南橫山區的海端鄉利稻村快要斷糧，台東縣政府緊急申請空勤直昇機，運送當地居民需要的糧食、藥品和三名醫護人員，順利執行空中運補。 台東縣連續下了5天豪大雨，南迴公路有21處發生土石流阻礙交通。由於今天是國慶連續三天假期的最後一天，南迴公路一早還是不能通車，造成車輛回堵將近5公里長。 ==民眾== (這樣子怎麼回去) 就等啊 ==大卡車司機== 不知道他有封路還是什麼 ==民眾== 我還要寫功課 南迴鐵路太麻里路段這兩天也受到土石流侵蝕，上午全線恢復通車，但中午在新吉2號隧道南方5百公尺又發生土石流，鐵軌嚴重變形。 ==台鐵台東工務段長 楊志斌== 它這個路線變形的原因 其實是整個山坡有在移動 有一點走山的現象 台鐵下午將近3點左右決定在沒有安全顧慮的情況下，由工程人員戒護，讓列車慢速通過。 記者 章明哲 台東報導