On July 22, four people working in the bed of shallow Pachang Creek in Chiayi County died after getting trapped by a flash flood and waiting in vain for three hours to be rescued.
七月二十二日，四名在嘉義縣八掌溪河床上工作的工人遭暴漲的溪水圍困，在救援單位受製於行政程序、救援措施緩不濟急等原因下，三個小時後，四人被捲進滾滾洪流。