Durian storm: Severe damage in Phu Quy island district

The latest news reported by the news reporters, strong winds on the 12th level with waves higher than 8m have caused great damage to Phu Quy island district (Binh Thuan). As of 9 am this morning, there were 820 storm-avoiding boats here sunk and nearly 2,000 houses collapsed, 400 dilapidated classrooms. Damage estimated at over 350 billion.

See VTV newsletter broadcast at 9:00 PM on December 5, 2006
See VTV newsletter broadcast at 12:00 on December 5, 2006

The whole island district lost power.

By 7:00 this morning, the People's Committee of Binh Thuan Province and the representative of the Government Working Committee met to discuss the remedial measures for Phu Quy, however, in the current weather conditions, there are no boats going to the island. According to Colonel Nguyen Van Manh, Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Zone 7, today the helicopter cannot fly to the island. The current demand of Phu Quy island district is a canvas house for 1,112 households without accommodation and food for the people here.

Path of storm No. 9 (Photo: TTO)

In some other areas in Binh Thuan like La Gi town, there are 178 houses with roofs and 2 ships sunk, 2 people died, that is the mother and daughter stayed in storm in the bell tower of Dong Tieng church Deadly steeple dead.

Latest summary of the Flood and Storm Control Steering Committee at 7:30 am this morning (December 5):

At 22:00 on December 4 at Phu Quy island (Binh Thuan), there was a level 11 wind, shocking level 12. In Binh Thuan storm, 2 people died in Tuy Phong district (being poured into the church by the Cross). .There are also 3 people in the province injured.70 ships were broken by waves, 820 small ships were sunk (including 1 of the border guards).Number of houses collapsed, roof speed was 1,120 units, 22 schools had roofs broken, 3 pillars of antennas were broken and many electric poles.The electricity system on Phu Quy island is badly damaged, causing the entire island to lose power.Communication system is also badly damaged.

Ba Ria-Vung Tau province has 9 people died, 500 houses were roofed.In Can Gio district (Ho Chi Minh City), there is a D24 (numberless) motorboat sunk and safe.Ben Tre province has caused many houses to collapse but the number has not yet been counted.

Typhoon hit Ben Tre, Tien Giang

At 7 o'clock on December 5, the location of the storm center is about 10.1 degrees north latitude, 106.9 degrees east longitude, right next to the east coast of Ben Tre province.The strongest winds in the area near the storm center are strong at level 10, level 11 (ie from 89 to 117 km per hour), jerking at level 11. In Ba Tri (Ben Tre) level 8, level 11 jerk, Go Cong (Money Giang) level 8, level 11 shock. Provinces from the South Central Coast have heavy to very heavy rain.Rainfall measured in the last 6 hours (up to 7 o'clock on December 5) in some places as follows: Quy Nhon (Binh Dinh) 22mm;Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa) 12mm;Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan) 76mm;Ham Tan (Binh Thuan) 154mm;Phu Quy (Binh Thuan) 232mm .

It is forecasted that in the next 24 hours, the storm will move in the direction of west-west and southwest of the province, about 15-20 km every hour, the storm center will go into the provinces of Ben Tre - Tra Vinh, then continue to go deep Entering the land through the western provinces of Southern Vietnam to the sea of ​​Ca Mau - Kien Giang.At 7 o'clock on December 6, the location of the storm center is about 9.5 degrees north latitude;102.8 degrees east longitude, on the Gulf of Thailand.

From the afternoon of December 5, the sea from Ca Mau to Kien Giang and Thai Gulf will cause the storm to gradually increase to level 7, level 8, then increase to level 9, shocking on level 9. The sea is very strong.Provinces from Thua Thien Hue to Binh Thuan, Nam Bo and coastal areas from Ca Mau to Kien Giang have moderate rain, heavy rain, and a very big place where precautions are needed to avoid tornadoes, flash floods and landslides.Coastal areas of Ca Mau to Kien Giang provinces need precautionary storm surge combined with high tide of 2-3 m and 5-7 m high waves.

(Newsletter broadcast at 9:30 PM of the Hydrometeorological Forecast Center)

The section of national highway 1 running through Ca Na waist connecting the two provinces of Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan is hit by waves to land on the edge of the road. Currently, in Tuy Phong district, there are 24 houses with roofs.

Vung Tau: 5 people died, more than 30 people were injured

Reporter Hai Dang from Ba Ria - Vung Tau said: In Dat Do district, Vung Tau: there were 5 deaths: 1 in Phuoc Hai, 1 in Phuoc Long Tho, 1 in Phuoc Hoi and 2 in Loc An.

Particularly in Phuoc Hai, according to incomplete statistics, there are about 800 houses with roofs and 89 injured. Currently, local authorities have arranged for homes to be evacuated into schools, while providing 5,000 packages of noodles to these households, preparing to provide an additional 12,000 packages of noodles.

Loc An commune, Vung Tau had two people who were crushed by the house, 30 to 40 were injured, hundreds of houses collapsed completely, 80% of Loc An's houses were roofed.

Lang Dai commune - Dat Do is about 10km away from the sea, with hundreds of houses being roofed.

Ben Tre: 8 people died

Information from the Ben Tre Flood and Storm Control Committee statistics this morning: Ben Tre has 8 people died (7 in Binh Dai and 1 in Chau Thanh). 2961 houses collapsed, 6565 houses were roofed. The most damaged districts are Binh Dai and Ba Tri due to their coastal location. At present, Ben Tre is in a state of power outage in the whole area.

Soc Trang: Relocated more than 200 households

In Soc Trang, rescue forces have displaced more than 200 households with more than 1,100 people in dangerous areas to avoid safe storms, expected to remove all 1,390 households in this morning. dangerous areas in Cu Lao Dung, Vinh Chau and Long Phu districts. Most of the boats in the province have entered safe storm shelter, only 40 offshore fishing boats with 580 fishermen who have not yet landed but have avoided quite a distance from the storm (near the Malaysian waters).

Tra Vinh: Heavy rain but no serious incidents

From 4 am 5-12 rain appeared on a large scale, there is a place very heavy rain like Tra Vinh Town, in the districts of Cau Ngang, Duyen Hai, and Tra Cu, but no major damage. Duyen Hai district has a long heavy rain, rushing to relocate hundreds of households to high places to avoid flooding; at the same time to stabilize the life of people in the time of avoiding storms. In Tra Cu district - it is expected to be the most concentrated place for storm prevention, with over 155 fishing boats being anchored at Dinh An fishing wharf, but there are only minor rains and no gusts. .

Cau Ngang district is deploying a force of field personnel to check the irrigation sluice system for rice and shrimp farming, but there has been no serious problem so far.

Thanh An and Can Gio island communes (Ho Chi Minh City): moving over 1,000 households

Reporter Ho Van said, at 4:00 this morning, the wind blew, the rain continued from midnight until this time. Thanh Hoa hamlet, a wall of wind walls blown by about 50 houses with roofs, ramshackle, 10 collapsed houses, 2 houses burned by electric shock. The communal People's Committee, schools, kindergartens were blown away, some people were lightly scratched. The Committee for Flood and Storm Control has moved about 1,233 people to the Ba Temple area and commune cultural house.

Tien Giang: 1 person died 7 missing people

According to reporter Van Truong in Tien Giang: A woman in Lang hamlet, Tan Thanh commune, Go Cong Dong while running away from storms and heart attacks, died. 6 people closed the bottom of Cau river in Vam Lang commune, Go Cong Dong was sunk, 2 people hugged plastic cans to be washed up to Tan Thanh commune, escaped death, 4 others were missing. 3 people in Tan Thanh commune, who were subjected to keeping clams, lost the wave.

According to interim statistics, 4/11 hamlets in Tan Thanh commune borders Ben Tre province with 700 houses with roof speed, 105 houses completely collapsed. The road section from Tan Hoa town to Tan Thanh had dozens of electric poles collapsed, dozens of trees were depleted, houses were badly damaged.

Mr. Le Van Nghia, chairman of Go Cong Dong District People's Committee, said that there were 15 communes reporting on the damage caused by the storm. As of 11:30 am, there were 818 houses collapsed, 2,879 houses were roofed, the heaviest were Phu Tan and Phu Dong islet communes, of which Phu Tan had 1,122 collapsed houses, Phu Dong had 1,163 houses collapsed, more than 4,000 inhabitants of these two communes are starving and the district has provided emergency relief to 15,000 packages of noodles.

This afternoon, the district will meet to pay for more rice and food for these two communes. There was an additional person in Kien Phuoc commune who had a stroke that raised the number of deaths to 2 people. There were 33 people missing in Vam Lang, Tan Thanh and Tan Phuoc. 5 boats were sunk and 10,000 people were evacuated to avoid storms.

Big wind spills trees in Vung Tau City (Photo provided by reader Le Van Ban, TTO)

Review of leaders of Binh Thuan and Ba Ria - Vung Tau provinces

At the meeting of the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control this morning, the members confirmed that the storm No. 9 was still strong, level 10, level 11, jerked on level 11, the situation was still complicated. It can be affirmed that it will land and directly affect the Mekong Delta provinces and the Southwest Sea of ​​Kien Giang and Ca Mau. Many boats are operating in the southeastern coast of Ca Mau and the West Sea of ​​Kien Giang. Therefore, it is necessary to concentrate on ensuring the safety of boats in this area, even when it comes to shelter. The relocation of people in this area must be done urgently this morning.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong criticized Binh Thuan province for not sending provincial leaders to Phu Quy island to direct the response to the storm. Deputy Prime Minister also commented that Ba Ria - Vung Tau province does not direct against weak houses.

Landslide at Ca Na beach - Ninh Thuan (Photo by Le Truong)

The electricity company announced the directing opinion of Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung and Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong

Storm No. 9 with winds of level 10, level 11, recoil on level 11 is affecting and landed directly on the Mekong Delta provinces and the southwestern coast of Ca Mau and Kien Giang.Storm can land on day and night 05-12, morning 06-12.This is an area with many small boats, houses are not safe enough.The time of storm inlet can be sustained all day and night to meet high tide, rising sea waves, many estuaries, canals, heavy rain, tornadoes will be very dangerous to people's lives and property. country.

The provinces in the Mekong Delta region above are absolutely not subjective to neglect:

1. Continuing and resolutely moving the evacuation of people in dangerous areas, the houses are not strong enough to reach a safe place.
2. The anchoring of ships especially in the West Sea, avoiding the repeat of Typhoon Linda's disaster in 1997.
3. On the morning of December 5, it is determined not to let people stay on boats when they have anchored and stayed on aquaculture farms, in case it is necessary to coerce people to safety.
4. Holding against houses, using sand bags to protect roofs with roofing.
5. Organizing forces in the area to ensure special security at night and residential areas that have evacuated.
6. Maintain forces to be ready for rescue and timely rescue in situations.
7. Defer all unnecessary meetings to focus on storm control.
8. Allow students to leave school in places where the school is not safe. 

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