The picture shows the huge disaster of "MORAKOT" typhoon in 8/8/2009.I decided not to start out with building wearable technology. In fact, the topic I am currently studying is the "weather danger." Not the cause of weather danger we face today, but there is a "system" which is not efficient enough to prevent tragedy happens such as hurricane and floods. I focused on the area of my hometown, Taiwan. Recently, there was one major typhoon (or hurricane) that traumatized the southern (rural area) part of the island. It is said this typhoon is the most disastrous during this past 50 years.
I looked at the news again about this "MORAKOT" typhoon. And, the Central Weather Bureau started to spread out the alert for the typhoon coming. However, the local news broadcast did not take it serious so did the people. CNN in Asia did warn Taiwan to start preventing this typhoon. The news did not show how local government handle the alert well to the rural people so that huge landslide and flood happened within two days. We actually have pretty developed news broadcast system; however, the "system" and the government happened to take the alert from CNN and Central Weather Bureau lightly. This is the point or place where things fall apart. I am starting to compare the typhoon and Katrina, and see the places where it does relate to each other.
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