“That is the worst flood I’ve seen,” Hanoi resident Tran Le Quyen informed Reuters information company. “It was dry yesterday morning. Now the whole avenue is flooded. We could not sleep final evening.”
Yagi, which was initially categorised as a brilliant storm – the equal of a class 5 hurricane – however later downgraded to a tropical despair, has continued to wreak havoc in Vietnam since making landfall on Saturday.
It has been described as Asia’s strongest storm this 12 months.
“My house is now a part of the river,” Nguyen Van Hung, who lives in a neighbourhood on the banks of the Crimson River, informed Reuters.
A complete village within the northern Lao Cai province was swept away on Tuesday amid flash floods. At the very least 25 folks have been confirmed useless, and tons of of troopers have been deployed to the village looking for these nonetheless lacking.
Authorities are additionally paying cautious consideration on a hydropower plant within the northwestern Yen Bai province, as an enormous influx of water into the reservoir surrounding the dam raises issues that it could collapse.
Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Rural Improvement Nguyen Hoang Hiep stated on Wednesday that the hydropower plant is “secure”, however urged residents within the space to remain below shelter, as it could take as much as two days for the water to recede to an “allowable degree”.
Yagi has left a path of destruction within the nation’s northern area over the previous 4 days. On Monday, it collapsed a busy bridge, plunging ten vehicles and two scooters into the Crimson River.
It additionally tore roofs from buildings, uprooted timber, and left widespread harm to infrastructure and factories within the north.
Earlier than hitting Vietnam, the storm left 24 folks useless throughout southern China and the Philippines.
Scientists have warned that because the world warms, typhoons can deliver larger wind speeds and extra intense rainfall, though the affect of local weather change on particular person storms is difficult.
Further reporting by BBC Vietnamese