Flooded roads limiting access to cyclone ravaged towns and villages, a road is washed away by a falling tree. Photograph: Bortemeyer/Corbis
On Tuesday evening, there 김해출장안마 김해출장샵were still no sign of the remnants of the cyclone when the town 영천출장마사지of Kefu in northern Vietnam was hit with an estimated 4.4 metres of rain – almost all of it torrential – in just five hours.
In a photograph of an island on Monday, several of the양산안마 houses and homes on Kefu’s northern tip were in ruins, with the sky filled with clouds. A resident told the Associated Press that she believed the town had been devastated by flooding of the reservoir that holds the reservoir water that had been pumped from the reservoir.
According to a local resident, local media reported that the waters near the town were about 2 metres deep, though the authorities said that the water level in the reservoir – which runs just above sea level – was below its official minimum of 1.6 metres, which means the water was flooding the town.
As well as flooding and power cuts, residents complained that they had been unable to find an emergency shelter. “One of our neighbours who left her house in an hour, never returned. So we were afraid,” a friend told local media.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The sky was filled with clouds as the rain flooded several houses on the island of Kefu. Photograph: Bortemeyer/Corbis
On a nearby island in southern Vietnam, one woman was quoted by local media as saying that she had feared that her home had been damaged after the reservoir flooded.
On the other hand, a resident of Gopiching, a town 60km north of Kefu, said she had just received a phone call from an older man telling her that the water had gone down the drain and the family was safe.
A video posted to YouTube shows a storm of orange and yellow raindrops and thunder falling on the village as a helicopter hovered over the village and other buildings. “Oh my God, we’re flooded in here,” a woman can be heard saying. “We are trapped.”
Local media reported that around 10,000 people had been affected by the storms. According to the United Nations, some of the affected had lost electricity and the situation was improving.
In the capital of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an estimated 35,000 people were displaced according to the government, and many homes on one island had been wrecked by floodwaters and destroyed b
