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This morning, October 26, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held an online meeting with localities to deal with Typhoon No. 9, which is tricky in the East Sea. During the meeting, the Central Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Natural Disasters said that Storm No. 9 was equally strong Typhoon Damrey 2017causing severe damage to people, property and infrastructure in many central provinces.
Satellite image of historic storm Damrey in 2017
So how strong was Typhoon Damrey in 2017, and how devastating was it?
Hurricane Damrey It is the twelfth storm to hit the mainland provinces of the central south coast, devastating parts of the central highland provinces on 4 November 2017.
According to the newspaper YouthAs of 2 a.m. on November 4, 2017, heavy storm Damrey level 8-9, landed in Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Binh Dinh provinces. The strongest winds from the storm on the continent reached Level 13, which was the strongest storm in 30 years (as of 2017) in Khanh Hoa province.
Typhoon Damrey continued for several hours straight and then strengthened to level 10, shook above level 12 in the north of Khanh Hoa, south of Phu Yen, lasted for almost 2 hours and then weakened. Altogether, the storm has been building up on this land for 6 consecutive hours, a rather rare phenomenon. Many elders also say that it is a strange storm because of its “rubbing”.
The storm had very strong winds, causing great damage in the city. Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa (Photo: Vietnamnet)
Khanh Hoa University gymnasium was destroyed by storm Damrey (Photo: Workers’ Newspaper)
– Regarding the damage caused by Typhoon Damrey, According to the government newspaper, the storm 44 people died and 229 were injured. Physically, more than 2,000 houses were destroyed; more than 70,000 cages were lost; 300 schools collapsed and were damaged; The total damage is estimated at more than 22 billion VND.
(Photo: Laborers newspaper)
People’s houses were exposed to the roofs (Photo: Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper)
Nha Trang has never suffered a severe storm like Damrey for decades (Photo: Indonesian Embassy)
Downtown flooded, traffic paralyzed after Typhoon Damrey (Photo: VNexpress)
A woman stands in neck-deep water in Hoi An, Quang Nam (Image: Reuters)
Men stand on the rooftops of Hoi An ancient city when the water is too high (Image: Reuters)
People have to row boats as a means of transportation (Image: Reuters)
A man wading in the water with a tank of gasoline (Image: Reuters)
Motorcycles and bicycles suffered the same fate as flooded and badly damaged ones (Image: Reuters)
Garbage floating on the road along the watercourse (Image: Reuters)
The famous Cau Temple tree also suffered the same fate when the water rose (Image: Reuters)
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