We watched this huge storm slip by Ho Chi Minh City without causing a ruckus; it merely produced a smattering of rain drops. The dark clouds moved fast. Here's one of the few articles I could find about the storm...I can't search for any news with Google's new function and a few times I've been denied access to certain web pages that seem fairly innocuous to me.HANOI - TROPICAL storm Noul, or Red Sky (or possibly Sun), unroofed homes, destroyed crops and sunk more than 100 unmanned boats in southern Vietnam, but spared Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong delta rice bowl, the government said on Tuesday.
The storm was downgraded into a tropical low pressure system as it made landfall late on Monday, after authorities earlier issued storm alerts, called ships ashore, closed schools and evacuated about 90,000 coastal residents.
Two people were killed during what was the tenth major storm of Vietnam's typhoon and storm season when they were electrocuted while preparing a house near the resort town of Nha Trang, authorities said.
Vietnam has repeatedly suffered heavy storms this year which brought the worst flooding in decades to the capital Hanoi in recent weeks, while tidal surges have inundated large areas of Ho Chi Minh City.
The rains that hit Hanoi and north-central Vietnam this month, killing at least 82 people, also destroyed more than 180,000 houses and 245,000 hectares of winter crops, the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
The Vietnam Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on November 12 launched an appeal for four million dollars (S$6.1 million) in relief aid for nearly 300,000 people in northern Vietnam, VNA said. -- AFP
scary. did you know you were going to Vietnam during the typhoon season?
ReplyDeleteI didn't. No, I didn't know much before I left! But storms are scary everywhere, and will only get worse really.
ReplyDeletefuzzles, I miss you a lot today!