Flood in VietNam 2010

3 weeks ago, I came back my country. Unfortunately, I was eye witness a great damage of flood in middle part of Vietnam.

According from BBC news (6 October 2010 Last updated at 09:07 GMT)

"More than 34,000 people in the worst-hit provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh have evacuated their homes after days of torrential rain.

The army has been using boats and helicopters to move people to safety and deliver food to the affected area.

Vietnam is frequently hit at this time of year by tropical storms and heavy flooding.

On Tuesday, officials said 130cm (51 inches) of rain had fallen in the region since Friday.

"This is the second time since 1985 that the water level went up too fast," said Phan Trietn in Quang Binh province.

"I just escaped from the water and all my belongings were swept away."

Landslides and floods have cut off several highways, including highways 1 and 9 and the Ho Chi Minh highway, officials said.

Thousands of hectares of rice fields have been flooded.

Water levels on rivers were dropping in Quang Binh province while rivers from Quang Tri to Thua Thien-Hue provinces were continuing to rise, said the national meteorology centre.

More rain was forecast for the central coast of Vietnam."



I'm so sad to share about feeling of people, who are lost family member...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Surging currents sucked a bus off a flooded highway and swept away 20 of its passengers, including a girl ripped from her mother's arms, as flooding caused 30 other deaths in Vietnam and a monster Typhoon Megi loomed offshore Monday.

Seventeen other people from the bus, including the driver, escaped by swimming to safety or clinging to trees or power poles, said Nguyen Hien Luong, head of Nghi Xuan district in Ha Tinh province. They were later rescued by fishermen and police, but 20 remained missing.

A 46-year-old woman carrying her daughter treaded water for 3 hours as the current dragged her 1.9 miles along the Lam River. But she was forced to let go of her daughter due to exhaustion before she was rescued. The girl was among three missing children

The bus was traveling from the central highlands province of Dak Nong to the capital when it drove through about 2 feet of gushing water and was knocked off balance around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, Luong said. Many passengers were jolted awake when the bus began to tilt sideways, state-controlled media reported.

"I heard people screaming that the bus was being swept away. I looked out and it was all water," the online newspaper Bee.net quoted survivor Ha Xuan Toa as saying. "People smashed windows to get out, but only one window was broken and we got out one by one."

About 500 soldiers, police and fishermen searched for the bus and possible survivors. Those remaining on the bus were presumed dead, Luong said.

Elsewhere in central Vietnam, heavy rains killed at least 30 people and left three others missing.

Disaster officials said Monday up to 31.5 inches of rain had pounded the region in a few days, forcing 126,000 people to flee their homes. About 300 soldiers have been deployed to rush instant noodles, rice and water to people affected by the floods.

The country's north-south rail service was interrupted after the tracks were submerged, forcing thousands of travelers to transfer onto buses.

Central Vietnam is still recovering from severe flooding earlier this month, which killed 66 people and left 17 missing.

"People are exhausted," Vietnamese disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Giai said by telephone from Quang Binh province. "Many people have not even returned to their flooded homes from previous flooding, while many others who returned home several days ago were forced to be evacuated again."

The current flooding was not linked to Typhoon Megi, which was crossing the northern Philippines on Monday. Its next landfall is expected in Vietnam or southern China, but the track is uncertain.

Giai said many houses were severely weakened by the floods and the typhoon's winds could flatten many homes if Megi does strike Vietnam.

Last updated: 7/10/2010 12:00 

At least 48 people have died, 1 8 are missing and 19 have been injured in floods brought by torrential rains starting last week in the central provinces, the Central Flood Control Committee reported Thursday.
Quang Binh Province was hardest hit with 33 people dying and 14 missing. Ha Tinh Province ranked second with seven deaths, while Quang Tri and Nghe An posted three and five respectively, it said.
“The rains have stopped falling and the water level has visibly lowered. But the possibility of finding the missing is reduced after several days of searching,” AFP quoted Hoang Van Quyet, an official with Quang Binh Province’s natural disaster committee, as saying.
Many houses, schools, bridges and other constructions were either submerged or damaged by floods across the north of the central coast, the committee said.
More than 17,500 houses were submerged and 638 bridges and drainage systems were swept away or destroyed in Ha Tinh Province.
Tran Minh Ky, vice chairman of Ha Tinh’s People’s Committee, told the Tuoi Tre newspaper that Huong Khe District had been hit hard by flooding partly because the Ho Ho Hydropower Dam had failed to release water when heavy rains came.
In fact, as the sluice gates could be operated because of a power cut, water had overflown the dam and put it at risk of being breached, Ky said.
Water levels in rivers from Ha Tinh to Quang Binh provinces, meanwhile, have gone down after reaching the highest danger levels over the past few days, as rains have stopped or decreased.
Food and emergency medical supplies are being sent to affected communities, state media reported.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Wednesday ordered authorities in affected areas to spend budget funds to buy instant noodles and bottled water for local people in flooded area.






Tropical storms and flooding regularly hit Vietnam at this time of year.