During a visit by Vice Premier Liu Chaoshiuan, the local people, exasperated by the effects of two calamities in quick succession, aimed a torrent of invective against the government's inappropriate planning and poor preventative measures. Some people blamed the flooding on inadequacies in straightening work carried out on downstream sections of the Keelung River, causing flooding further upstream.
受災民眾忍不住在行政院副院長劉兆玄前往探視時，當面破口大罵政府的建設不當、防洪措施不良，也有人責怪水患的起因是下游基隆河段截彎取直，造成上游河段河水倒灌。