Mrs. Chiu Pan Chiu-chu is 89. She lost touch with her son many years ago; her daughter, who lives in Taichung, offered to take her in after the quake, but she was unwilling to go. Community workers wanted to arrange a prefabricated home for her, but she refused, insisting instead on living in a tent across the road from the ruins of her former rented apartment.
. 阿婆邱潘秋菊今年八十九歲，兒子早已不知去向，住台中的女兒要接她去同住她不願意，社工員要安排她去住組合屋她也不肯，執意在倒塌的租屋對面搭帳棚棲身。