Most typhoons come ashore on the island’s sparsely populated east coast, but Danas scraped its crowded western edge. Nearly 300,000 households had no power on Monday.

Typhoon Danas has brought heavy winds and torrential rains to parts of Taiwan, killing two people and injuring more than 300 on the island’s densely populated west coast

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Typhoon Danas has inflicted more than NT$1 billion (US$34.4 million) in damages to Taiwan’s agricultural products and facilities, according to the Ministry of Agriculture's latest assessment released Monday night.