EXTREMELY TORRENTIAL RAIN BRINGS PLANES AND TRAINS TO A HALT|暴雨來襲 機場航班台鐵列車大亂

The traffic was also affected by the sudden, ceaseless rain. At Taoyuan International Airport, a shopping area inside terminal 2 flooded as rain poured through the roof. Taipei's Songshan Airport was also forced to close. A total of 177 local and international flights had been cancelled or postponed at Taipei's two airports. Train services were also disrupted. The foundations of Shifen train station on the Pingxi line were flooded and the Shenao tunnel was even covered by a landslide, so the Pinxi and Shenao Lines were forced to close while emergency personnel were working around the clock to repair the damage. Around 11am, staff rolled up their trousers and all got to work with dustpans to sweep up the water along the walkway between shops at Taoyuan International Airport Terminal Two shopping mall. The rain was so heavy that the drains just couldn't cope and the whole shopping area was flooded. ==HO CHEN TAN MOTC Minister== It wasn't a flood today, it was leaks, the rain was so heavy that it couldn't be drained away in time. In addition to the flooding, the extremely torrential rain caused poor visibility, so that flights were disrupted. In the morning, Taoyuan International Airport had a thunderstorm warning and work on waiting flights was halted on the apron. Songshan International Airport was also affected by the extremely torrential rain and was closed at 10:30 am. On the flight board, there was a whole row of red and orange lights as flights were delayed and passengers congregated at check-in counters seeking updates. ==PASSENGER== Originally we were going to Penghu for 3 days, but now with the flights halted, the whole schedule is going to be off. Many flights scheduled to land at Taoyuan or Songshan Airports were diverted to Kaohsiung's Xiaogang, or Hong Kong. Some passengers returning from Japan who were scheduled to land at Songshan at 10 am, were diverted to Kaohsiung and didn't return to Taipei until 2:45 pm. ==PASSENGER== When we got there, there was a lot of turbulence and so the plane was going round for about 20 or 30 minutes and was going to Taoyuan, it flew for about 30 or 40 minutes and couldn't land, so in the end, announced it was going to Kaohsiung. The thunderstorm continued and Taiwan Railways had flooding on the lines from Ruifang to Qigu and Taoyuan to Yingge. At one point there were no trains in either direction and it wasn't until about 1 pm that services resumed. ==HUANG JUNG-HUA Dir., Taipei Train Station == The number 411 was delayed the most, for about 100 minutes and then the 271 was late by 70 minutes. On the Pingxi line, Shifen Station's foundations were flooded. On the Shenao line, there was a landslide in the Shenao tunnel. In the Alishan recreation area on the Zhaoping line and the Shenshu line, as there was rainfall over 200 mm, all the trains were halted. 北台灣今天降下超大豪雨，桃園機場二航廈、二樓禮品大街也淹水，整條走道通通遭殃，機場也因為大雨航班大亂，台北松山機場也暫停起降，不少航班只好轉降高雄小港機場和香港，另外，台鐵平溪線十分站、路基被淘空、深澳線深澳隧道口、被土石淹沒，造成列車停駛，也在全力搶修。 工作人員捲起褲管、脫下鞋子，手拿畚箕要將地上積水趕緊清除，因為就在上午11點，桃園機場第二航廈的二樓禮品大街傳出淹水，因為雨勢大，漏水孔來不及排水，整條走道通通都遭殃。 ==交通部長賀陳旦== 今天不是淹水今天是漏水 大量的水擁擠到 漏水孔不及排水 除了二航廈淹水，這場滂沱大雨，也讓視線能見度變低，導致航班大亂，桃園機場在上午發布雷雨當空警報時，一度停止停機坪地面作業，松山機場也受到大雨影響，在10點半關閉，航空資訊看板上，整排亮起橘紅色的延遲通知，民眾擠滿航空公司報導櫃臺，整個行程都被打亂。 ==民眾== 本來是要去（澎湖）三天 因為現在這樣（停飛） 行程整個就泡湯了 也有不少原訂飛往桃園、松山機場的航班，上午紛紛轉降高雄小港機場和香港，有民眾從日本搭機返台，原本上午10點要降落松山機場，在降轉高雄後，在下午2點45分才又回到台北。 ==民眾== 到的時候一直有那個氣流 還是什麼 它（飛機）就一直在上空 二三十分鐘盤旋 後來要飛到桃園機場 也飛了三四十分鐘 後來又說要轉到高雄機場 而大雷雨不斷，也讓台鐵瑞芳到七堵，桃園到鶯歌間水淹過軌面，一度雙線不通，直到下午一點才陸續恢復正常。 ==台北車站站長 黃榮華== 延誤最多的就是411次（列車） 大約晚100分鐘 再來就271（列車）晚70分鐘 至於平溪線，因十分站內部，路基被淘空，深澳線也因深澳隧道口土石淹沒路基，平溪線及深澳線列車停駛，目前正全力搶修中，阿里山遊樂區沼平線、神木線也因單日雨量超過200毫米，列車也全部停駛。 綜合報導