Heavy rain swamped parts of Tainan, cutting off access to a city hospital — bad for drivers, who are losing license plates in the water.

• A low-pressure system and strong southwest winds dumped heavy rain on Tainan, flooding roads around An Nan Hospital.
• Firefighters used two rubber boats, backed by police and volunteers, to ferry patients across the flooded streets.
• The hospital added its own vans, and about 200 people were carried through in total.
• A local man found 16 car and motorcycle license plates washed off in the flooded stretch and handed them all to a police station.
• Police are tracing owners from the plate numbers and are telling drivers to check whether their plates are still attached.

Outlook: More heavy rain would mean more flooded roads and more lost plates, so police expect further handovers in the coming days.