Hong points out that 100 years ago, when no dike had yet been put up along the midstream section of the Linbian River, every time a typhoon came the floodwaters would roll out over the thousands of hectares of flood plain, and would not all race straight downstream toward settled areas.
洪輝祥指出，在 100 年前林邊溪中游還沒有築堤擋水的時候，每逢颱風，溪水就會在廣達數千公頃的洪泛區內奔騰，不會全部於短時間往下游人煙聚集地區灌注。