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Nguyen Van Hat chews dry food after 3 days trapped in a flood – Photo: NGOC HIEN
At 5:00 p.m. on October 19, the rescue team in Quang Binh province still gathered communes along the Kien Giang River in Le Thuy district to continue rescuing hundreds of cases of people trapped in the historic flooding, Still torrential rains and floods are still high.
Meanwhile, in Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue, in many places the water level still rises, people’s lives become more difficult.
Quang Binh is like the sea: unprecedented large floods
After 3 days and nights of staying on the roof of the house, Mr. Nguyen Van Hat (Loc Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, Quang Binh) and his wife were boarded by a lifeboat on the waves, rescued from the house submerged in water and they could collapse at any moment. When escaping from the house, Mr. County complained: “I’m empty-handed, nothing more …”.
Fleeing from the flooded house submerged in the sea of water, Mr. Hat and his wife ate a piece of food from the rescue force. Mr. Hat’s house is near the bank of the Kien Giang River, the floodwaters rise to the roof with large waves that make the small boats inaccessible to people.
For 3 days and 3 nights, Mr. Hat and his wife simply chewed live instant noodles. The children were taken to the home of the vice president of the commune, Mr. County stayed to keep the house, but unexpectedly the flood was too great and it got stuck in the fourth grade house, exhausting the couple.
“Since my parents were born until now, I have seen such great floods, the house is gone, there are 2 buffalo in the house, but now I don’t care anymore” – Mr. Hat choked.
Similarly, Mr. Duong Cong Mai was also rescued by a boat from his collapsed house due to heavy flooding and waves. For the last 3 days, Mr. Mai was submerged in flood water, anchored his property, but when the house collapsed, Mr. Mai had to swim out.
For several days, rolling in the floodwater, Mai’s hands and feet turned pale from the cold and collided with furniture every time the waves hit the house. “It’s good to save lives now, all the houses have been ruined and then I won’t care,” Mai said.
Following the rescue team in Le Thuy district, the Tuoi Tre reporter witnessed thousands of rooftops in communes along the Kien Giang River submerged in flooded seas up to 3-4 m high. Many residents had to remove their tile roofs to escape, and many houses were completely submerged by the floods.
Due to the steep rise of the water on the night of October 18 and the high waves, the rescue efforts were difficult, people were forced to stay on their roofs or sit in boats anchored to the roof, waiting for the morning light . In the communes, hundreds of small boats of people have been mobilized to continuously transfer people from stranded families to mountain areas.
Fishermen were even mobilized to go up the river to the lower communes for their rescue. Mr. Nguyen Huu Hien, chairman of the Ngu Thuy Commune People’s Committee, said that this commune urgently mobilized 35 fishing boats to go to the communes to rescue people at night.
Meanwhile, in the Son Thuy commune, almost 2,000 homes were deep in the sea, the commune urgently sent 500 people to hide from the floods on the second floor of the CPC. In which there were dozens of homes in Vinh Quang village that were isolated, the communal rescue team could not reach due to the strong waves, the commune lifeboats almost capsized upon reaching this area.
On the morning of October 19, lifeboats had approached this town and rescued the remaining residents. stranded.
Quang Tri was devastated after the flood
On October 19, the water basically receded in the Quang Tri navel flood. People rushed out of the gathering places and go back to cleaning the old house. Many people cried while looking at their most precious fortune, sacks of rotten rice. Ngo Van Dang (57, Thanh An Commune, Cam Lo District) rhymes bags of wet and muddy rice on the road, face sad.
The fourth flood of water rose quickly and was unprecedented, his entire family could only climb on the roof of the house. Running through the people was happy, but when he looked back at the paddy field for the fourth time, he couldn’t hide his pain.
“After the first time, the second time when the wet rice still has hope, but after 10 days of flooding, I only hope to save the rice to sell to the ducks” – Mr. Dang sadly.
Everyone in the commune shared the same rice rotting situation. The young people of the village helped by rowing the boats, pushing the bags of rice, hoping to save them, waiting for a car to arrive and drying, but everyone’s family was flooded with rice, the number of dryers in the area was not enough to save the rice. for the people. Everyone is sad, helpless.
Not just rice, many homes in Cam Lo district were washed away by the floods of thousands of purebred pigs; fish ponds, shrimp spilled into the fields. Farmers lost their lives, their lives were turned upside down, they rose weakly after the flood.
According to the Quang Tri Province People’s Committee, on October 19 the floods and landslides caused serious consequences: 40 dead, 16 missing and 15 injured. Hundreds of houses were damaged, severely damaged and washed away by the floods. Property damage cannot be recorded.
Although the water receded, Hue was still deeply flooded in many communes, traffic was still divided, people moved by boat on the afternoon of October 19 – Photo: P. Tuan
Hue flooded with water for a dozen days
On October 19, the water level of the rivers in Thua Thien Hue remained high, the northern districts of the province were still deeply flooded; Traffic on National Highway 49B, Provincial Highway 8, and Inter-Commune Highway in Quang Dien, Phong Dien and Huong Tra City districts are still divided.
People in communes isolated by flood water for more than 10 days today, such as Huong Vinh, Huong Toan, Huong Phong (Huong Tra Town), Quang Thanh, Quang An, Quang Tho (Quang Dien District), Phong Chuong, Phong Binh, Phong Hoa (Phong Dien district) … traveling by boat. All the schools in these districts have not returned to work because the water is still flooded and divided many areas.
On routes connecting Hue city center with communes in Quang Dien district, boat transportation services, transporting people and motorcycles through flooded sites also operate continuously in Huong Vinh communes and Huong Toan. Relief teams have not yet moved to the communes, so they must transport relief items. boat.
Mr. Hoang Van Thai, Vice Chairman of the Phong Dien District People’s Committee, said that there are still many villages in the communes, although the flood waters have flowed out of people’s houses, the roads are still flooded. The villages of Van Trinh (Phong Binh commune), Phu Loc (Phong Chuong commune), Tu Chanh (Phong Son commune) … are still flooded more than 1m deep. People’s daily life faces many difficulties due to the long flood of water.
On the situation of the return to school after the flood, Mr. Nguyen Tan, director of the Department of Education and Training of Thua Thien Hue, said that so far, the province has had more than 50,000 students absent from school; books, learning tools … more than 15 billion in damages.
On October 19, in Phong Dien, Quang Dien and Huong Tra City districts, schools were unable to return to school because many places were still deeply flooded. Some areas have regressed, teachers rush to clean the bathroom to prepare students to return to school. Schools in Hue City, Huong Thuy Town, Phu Loc District, Phu Vang have basically come back Back to school.
The damage is too great
Young people help residents of Thanh An Commune, Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province, to dry rice – Photo: CHAU TUAN
Mr. Nguyen Van Thuc, Chairman of the Son Thuy Commune People’s Committee (Le Thuy District, Quang Binh), said that this cataclysm caused great damage, people’s property and livestock were submerged.
According to Mr. Thuc, the flood of a few days ago collapsed some houses, this flood was even greater than the previous one, but the commune could not come to check because the flood water was too big.
However, people still live with great gratitude, as teachers and people cook rice in Son Thuy primary school and the flood team brings hundreds of meals to people in places to prevent flooding.
