"From our work building the national highways, we know that with the most advanced backhoes and bulldozers, it takes three years to clear 30,000 cubic meters of rubble. No matter how you went about it, you'd never be able to dig out the 30 million cubic meters at Chiufen'erh Mountain," says Li Chang-lien lamenting Nature's awesome power.
「根據國道高速公路的經驗，一百萬立方公尺的坍塌以最先進的機具設備清除，要花三年的時間，九份二山的坍塌高達三千萬立方公尺，再怎麼挖掘也是無能為力了」，李昌連感嘆大自然力量的不可逆。