Typhoon Chaba

[Anchor Lead]

Typhoon Chaba wreaked havoc on the southern coast of Korea. The city of Busan has borne the brunt of the floods brought by the typhoon because the high tide coincided with the time of the typhoon's landing. Here’s more in our first story.

[Pkg]

Typhoon Chaba began to affect the city of Busan in earnest at around 6 a.m. Wednesday. This small yet powerful typhoon moved toward the northeast at a high speed, bringing ocean waves of up to eight meters high. As the time of the typhoon's landing coincided with the high tide, the powerful waves crossed over the breakwater to inundate an motorway by the beach. Many passenger cars and buses were trapped in the raging waves. At approximately the same time, the
typhoon landed in Saha-gu District of Busan. The typhoon wreaked havoc on land as well by bringing gusty winds of over 30 meters a second. The winds broke a crane at a construction site and knocked down a parking tower.

[Soundbite] Park Chang-kyun(Eyewitness) : "It was gone in a matter of seconds. The gusty wind began to blow in this area all of a sudden."

However, by noon the skies over Busan began to clear up. Typhoon Chaba stayed in Busan for just one hour. But it was enough to cause massive damage to the port-city.