Damage from modern natural disasters is often of several different varieties because of the addition of the human factor. This makes rescue work more difficult and complicated. Chen Liang-chun, an assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University, says, "Typhoon Winnie should just have caused wind damage, but the Lincoln Mansions disaster it caused was more like what an earthquake would do."
自然災害加上人為因素，現代災害通常是混合性的，救災工作更為複雜困難，台灣大學建築與城鄉研究所副教授陳亮全舉例說：「溫妮過境原本只是風災，但是引發的林肯災變卻更像震災。」