Authorities reported that two people had died as the typhoon brought torrential rains across Taiwan, both on the mountainous and sparsely populated east coast. One fell while trimming a tree and the other's vehicle was hit by a rock.
It's very powerful, said Chou Yi-tang, a government official in Siaogang district, home to Kaohsiung's airport. It's been a long time since such a big storm made a landfall here.
More than 100,000 homes lost electricity, half of them in Kaohsiung, state-run utility Taipower said. All domestic flights were cancelled for a second day, as well as 242 international flights.
Typhoons often hit the east coast facing the Pacific, but Krathon is unusual since it directly hit the west coast, leading Taiwan's media to label it a weird storm, and also because it hovered off the coast before reaching land.
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