Located in Kaohsiung’s Taoyuan District (桃源), the collapsed bridge cut off access to the mountainous villages of Meishan, Lavulang and Fushing, according to the Kaohsiung Fire Bureau. The Central Weather Bureau (中央氣象局) recorded extremely heavy rain for 14 cities and counties in central and southern Taiwan, indicating that some locations saw 200 millimeters of rainfall over a 24-hour period or over 100 mm in 3 hours.