After the disaster, there were 200,000 visits made by volunteers from throughout Taiwan as well as by military personnel lending a hand in cleaning up debris. But it seems as if the mud will never be completely cleared away, and today, two months later, the fishponds and orchards on which the residents depend for their livelihoods are still scarred and coated with black earth.
災後，從全台各地湧入了約 20 萬人次的志工和國軍幫忙清理污泥，但淤泥似乎永遠清不完，至今兩個月過去了，居民賴以為生的魚塭和果園卻仍然黑土橫陳、滿目瘡痍。