‘Shovel Superman’’: Alberta Man Uses Vacation to Help Clean up Floods in Taiwan

‘Shovel Superman’’: Alberta Man Uses Vacation to Help Clean up Floods in Taiwan
Jaron Rosso Wiigs from Alberta, shown in this handout image from video, has earned the nickname "shovel superman" after he volunteered to help clean up from a recent flood in Guangfu, Taiwan. The Canadian Press/Handout—Zuola
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While many people like to spend their vacations on the beach or at resorts, Jaron Rosso Wiigs of Edmonton used some of his days off to shovel mud after a typhoon in Taiwan.

When he arrived in the country, he heard about the damage from a powerful typhoon caused when tonnes of dirt, muddy water, and debris gushed into the streets of Guangfu, a township in eastern Taiwan.