Typhoon Sinlaku had dealt a similar blow to Nantou County's Lushan hot springs district just one year earlier. In fact, typhoons had battered the Lushan hot springs three times in just one year, wreaking havoc on what were once referred to as "the world's best springs" and washing away much of its illegal overdevelopment, a plague common to all of Taiwan's hot springs districts.
令人欷噓的是，相同的劫難在一年前辛樂克颱風時就曾降臨在南投廬山溫泉區，而短短一年內，廬山溫泉區連續遭逢 3 次風災侵襲，不僅讓昔日的「天下第一泉」滿目瘡痍，也把台灣各大溫泉民宿區違建林立、過度開發等陳年問題一併沖出來。