TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon Morakot slammed into the Pacific island home of 23 million people on Saturday, Aug. 8, Taiwan's Father's Day The giant storm brought with it the heaviest rainfall in 50 years.

Taiwan Taichung LDS Mission President Michael Hoer described the more-than two meters (80-100 inches) of rain that fell during the storm as "the amount of precipitation that Utah would see in four years."

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