Portions of the Lihsing Commercial Road were washed out by flooding from Typhoons Mindulle and Aere in consecutive years. When international steel prices shot up in 2004, contractors began to fear default penalties and avoided taking on what they viewed as money-losing projects in Juiyen.
72 水災、艾利颱風連年來襲，讓原本就相當脆弱的力行產業道路肝腸寸斷，甚而 2004 年起的國際鋼價大漲，也都讓承包商甘冒違約罰款的危險，拒絕瑞岩這筆賠錢生意。