However the area of Xiaolin Village under alert contained only 19 households, the Disaster Prevention and Protection Act states only that evacuations must be considered, and many villagers were unwilling to leave as the area seldom sees major landslides. But early in the morning of August 9th, the land finally gave way, destroying a total of 395 households, with only two left standing.
但因小林村原本劃入警戒區的僅有 19 戶，加上現行「災害防救法」有關紅色警戒的規定為「得」視情況強制撤離，且小林村過去少見大型土石流，因此多數居民遲遲不願撤離，終而導致 8 月 9 日清晨山崩屋毀，395 戶全數滅頂，僅 2 戶倖存。