Another typhoon, Malakas, is expected to approach Taiwan on Friday and Saturday, but is unlikely to make landfall.
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The water supply in most areas resumed by 8 p.m. Thursday.
By the time it reached the coast of China, Meranti had been downgraded to the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds around 145 m.p.h.
More than 330,000 people were returning to their homes on Friday after being forced to flee a storm that meteorologists said was the world’s biggest this year.
The moon hit roads after typhoon winds detached it from the festival float it had been anchored to.
It is a holiday in China and many people were home or traveling to see family.
Companies and schools in Kaohsiung and other cities closed and nearly 1500 residents were evacuated, the Central Emergency Operation Centre said in a statement.
The super typhoon, known as Meranti, is strongest storm to hit the country in 21 years – with gusts of up to 227km/h (141 mph).
Schools and kindergartens in coastal cities of Fuzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Putian in Fujian were closed Wednesday in precaution against the typhoon.
On Sept. 14 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Meranti as it hit the island of Itbayat in the Luzon Strait.
The eye of the storm was located about 470 kilometres to the southeast of Taiwan and was moving northwest at a speed of 22 kilometres per hour, according to the bureau.
According to Reuters, Meranti will continue to lose strength as it pushes inland and up toward China’s commercial capital of Shanghai, but will bring heavy rain.
It made landfall near China’s south-eastern city of Xiamen on Thursday morning.
Typhoon Meranti, the strongest this year, was packing winds of up to 209 km per hour as it neared the island on Wednesday, the meteorological agency said.
The storm has weakened in strength since touching down in China.
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In July, Super Typhoon Nepartak hit in nearly the same location as where Meranti is traveling. Fujian provincial government has so far allocated 60 million yuan in living relief for affected people.
