Hanoi suffered the biggest rain in 35 years

Unprecedented scenes in Hanoi, immense flood waters from morning to midnight. In the middle of the night, you may not be able to get to the street because they are so similar that only water and water are available.

Please watch the video of the evening of October 31

At midnight on October 31, even though it was raining, the whole streets were still flooded, the cars were dead from the sea in the middle of the water, lying dormant to fill the car with water.

On Lang Ha Street, a field team is the rickshaw at the labor market, hired by a car owner to bring the BMW X5 out of the road that is deep enough to the chest.

The " pusher workers " shouted all over the corner of the street, but the car was only able to walk at a pedestrian speed, walking 2 steps and being beaten by the wave one step back.

On the contrary, a 1.5 ton truck is revving like a shot, in the cheering applause of nearly a hundred people walking on both sides of the road. In the middle of the flood, the car seemed to be muffled and proud and stopped in a loud applause. Waves from the car make water from the abdomen up close to the chest of pedestrians.

2:30 am on November 1, Lang Ha Street is still submerged in the sea of ​​water, and the remaining cars are still waiting for the sprint.(Photo: Pham Tuan)

In the 4-seater, 7-seat car lying in the middle of the sea is the rescue vehicles, emergency duty of flooded cars, but also stagnant, including the 6 billion car, considered is the "best" of the transport industry.

The most asked question at night is: Is the road ahead flooded? Is it over? . At midnight, many cars do not dare to venture into the flooded area because they do not ask anyone to know if it is too deep.

The entire lawn on the median strip was plowed by means of vehicles climbing over to go the other way. The iron fences on the road were pushed down, the "blockhouse" was removed to turn the car in heavy flooded sections.

The whole Thai Ha street is flooded with yellow water.Photos taken at 2:45 am on November 1.(Photo: Pham Tuan)

On all the flooded streets, houses with aluminum pull doors were knocked down by the waves, there were a bright house in the middle of the night, sitting or trying to sleep temporarily. The basement houses are flooded with water.

The restaurants on Giang Vo, Lang Ha and Thai Ha streets burn out from dusk because traffic jams stop waiting for sprints.

The entire taxi system was completely stalled, when the customer knocked on the door, either in the car without the driver or receiving a shaking head. These are still the ones that accept passengers but only go through the dry section to stop. Some of them dived into the "death door" and had to lie dormant in the middle of the way to walk in the water to the stomach.

Lang Ha and Thai Ha crossroads become a gathering place for cars waiting for sprints.Photo taken at 2:30 PM on November 1.(Photo: Pham Tuan)

Life turned upside down

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoai Trang, Dinh Cong urban area thinks that every street is blocked so she stays at the agency (Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh), her husband also stays with her, two fast food callers on the 1st floor. The building also stayed with her husband and wife, some even bought the hotpot to hybridize overnight.

The Union College dormitory area, water flooded up to more than 1m, the grocery salesman hired students to bring dry goods on order to the dormitory room for a little more than usual.

At the school gates, many parents who send their children to school are not able to walk to school to carry their children through flood waters.

The car that bravely crossed the sea will be given a round of applause.(Photos provided by readers)

Many people who follow the North-South train to Hanoi tonight also "lay still" at the station because this section is most heavily flooded. Those who go hand in hand can not wade away but if there is luggage, there is no means that can run through here.

The water at Sword Lake has moved to shore, many parts of Dinh Tien Hoang water have been flooded on the road. All day-to-day activities around the lake's shore stop completely.

The road of Lo Duc and Ngo Thi Stagnant flooded to the people's houses on both sides of the road, it is impossible to distinguish what is the road, the sidewalk if there is no tree. The group trekked in the dark because the light was not bright enough for the whole street to lose power.

Photos flooding the streets are stalled cars or gasping for smoke when restarting.Photos provided by readers

Roads around Thien Quang Lake and along Le Duan Street are the deepest and longest inundated sections, and all motorbikes and most cars passing by are dead. On sidewalks and sections without flooding, motorbikes lined up hundreds of meters to drain and start. On the sidewalk are a few dozen motorcycles parked against the edge of the sidewalk, holding the front wheel to the sky to pour water from the machine.

Never before did people who knew about motorcycles work so much, car repair shops worked until midnight and the cars were still lined up, even non-mechanic people, but with a screwdriver and a spark plug was possible. become a mechanic and earn 10,000 to 30,000 VND / car.

The sound encompasses all dark streets and tonight is the sound of starting a motorbike, the sound of battering and the sound of gas rumbling, many roads are covered by car smoke and the scent of fuel has been mixed with water. This sound continues until 2-3am on October 1.

Never before had a precedent, after midnight the bus was still operating with a high frequency, many cars still accepted passengers but many vehicles paid off the last batch of customers struggling to find their way back to the wharf.

Many Hanoi lakes cannot distinguish between lakes and lakes.Photos provided by readers.

The feeling of a person on the street from noon to night

Ha Thu, a resident of Hanoi, came to the street from noon to midnight to tell his feelings: Nearly all streets in Hanoi are flooded with water. It's rare to see city traffic becoming chaotic as it is today.

Signal light system is ineffective. People and vehicles do not differentiate between one-way or no-way roads, just seeing that they are not flooded. From the small lanes to the big streets, everywhere, people also caught sight of people flooded in water, waving raincoats with cars that died.

In this weather condition, bicycles and walking are the best solutions.But you will get scabies when wading through the hospital gate.Photos provided by readers.

Many people fall off their cars because they cannot see the road clearly in the muddy water. Roads that are not flooded, on either side of the sidewalk are a series of motorbikes that are tilted up so owners can step on their cars, hoping that the engine will continue to pass, can pass the long way ahead to go home.

People and cars lined up long in front of the car repair shops, anxiously waiting for their turn to hurry home.

At 5 pm, the rain does not stop, the influx of people begins to rush into the city despite the water level on the streets is not reduced. Walking on the streets of central Phan Chu Trinh, Ba Trieu, Hue Street . people could not escape to another street because the water level was too deep, the road was hard.

Water flooded to chest - Photo provided by readers

Cars and motorbikes are lying in silence, confused between powerless roads. Many streets were cut off from electricity: Lo Duc, Ham Long, Tran Quoc Toan . the people in the house were so tired of going to the streets in the dark and dark.

On the long street Le Duan, Hanoi station is quieter than usual. Only the groups of people kept bowing in the rain, floating in the garbage with the dead car.

At this time, when the city is submerged in the sea of ​​water, when it is necessary to wade through long streets, it is obvious the level of environmental pollution of the street. Rubbish rubs together and floats, wrapped in the pedestrian's feet. Bottles, papers, vegetables, plastic shells . are the most visible things.

Fragile in the sea - Photos provided by readers

Unable to distinguish what is floating around and confused, people on the road can only close their eyes, trying to swim quickly to escape this flooded street to another street are flooded . equally .

The feeling of footing will be most obvious if you go through the streets with hospitals or railway stations, bus stations, because there is a lot of garbage gathered here, very diverse.

The biggest rain in 35 years

During October 31, many streets in Hanoi were inundated, prolonged congestion. The reason is that the amount of water has not escaped all, the rain continues.

The road was blocked because the cars and motorbikes flooded and accidentally entered the flooded streets, so they could not turn around.

Many officials, civil servants, students, students . in Hanoi are currently unable to return home after 1 working day. The reason is that the sky is still heavy rain, many streets are flooded, every road is congested.

At 18:30, Hanoi is still flooded, traffic is still paralyzed - (Photo: Le Anh Dung)

Many civil servants on Lang Ha, Thai Ha, Giang Vo and Huynh Thuc Khang streets . although they want to go home from 17h, they cannot because the car park is flooded, cars die, while taxi and motorbike taxi are from refuse to welcome guests.

By 16:00 pm on October 31, according to Hanoi Drainage Company, the measured rainfall in the inner city showed that this was the biggest rain in the last 24 years, since 1984.

If you count the daily rains, this is the biggest rain in 35 years.

In Ha Dong, this is a historic rain since 1964. The total measured rainfall is calculated until 16h of October 31st in some areas as follows: Lang 339,6mm, Van Ho 220mm, Dong Bong 515mm Ha East 492,6mm.

On October 31, any place in Hanoi turns into a river - Photos provided by readers

Water levels in rivers and lakes are rising higher than usual from 1.5-2m. Particularly, Thanh Cong Lake and Ngoc Khanh Lake have flooded and caused serious flooding in Thanh Cong area and Nguyen Chi Thanh road.

Due to the ' historical ' rainfall, it has caused the most flooding points in the last 5 years and spread across all districts: Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Huy Tuong, Tran Dang Ninh, Nguyen Tuan, Chua Ha . across central streets such as Hang Chuoi, Tong Dan and Van Bao.

In many areas, due to the high water level, the Department of Construction has demanded to cut off electricity such as Dong Bong pumping station (Tu Liem) this afternoon, the water has risen to 5.7m.

Mr. Nguyen Le, Director of Hanoi Drainage Company, said that 1,000 workers of the company were mobilized to clear the flow, open manholes and coordinate with CSGt to guide traffic at the ' hot ' flooding points. Traffic such as Thai Ha and La Thanh crossroads .

This flood is considered a history in Hanoi - (Photo: Chi Hieu)

Yen So pumping station has also operated at full capacity with 11 units, the company also combined with the Nhue River Irrigation Company to open all the dams to Day River all regulating lakes to lead the water to " rescue ". for inner city routes.

However, Mr. Le also admitted, because from 16h to tonight, the rain continued to be big, so the flooding points were slowly withdrawn, the traffic evening was complicated, making the drainage process more difficult.

A series of flights were delayed because of bad Hanoi weather

On the afternoon of October 31, the Chief of Office of Northern Air Port Authority Nguyen Nam Son said: Heavy rain, cloudiness, from 955 am to 11:50 am, made 10 flights unable to land at Noi Bai airport ; thousands of guests had to go to the reserve airports to wait for the weather to be fine before returning to Noi Bai airport.

Pham Tuan - Ha Thu - Chi Hieu - Thuy Du