Ho Chi Minh City: Rainy, falling trees, flooded roads, burning electrical equipment

In the whirlwind rain on 28/5, lightning struck many household electrical appliances. Rain flooded on many roads; Traffic is seriously blocked.

The wind ripped off the tree, one person escaped death

Around 14:00, the tornado broke the 14-year-old eagle's top, 75cm in diameter, 10 meters high in front of the coffee shop Thuy Hang (house number 80/7 Ba Van Street, Ward 14, Tan Binh District) collapsed and torn. Fully mobile porch of this house.

Falling branches cause damage to low-voltage power lines, telecommunication cables and short-term power outages in the area. Shortly thereafter, employees of Tan Phu Power Company and employees of the City Green Park Company were present at the scene to overcome the power failure, cut down the eagle tree.

At the same time, the monkey monkey was 14m high and 40cm in diameter was planted by the Green Tree Park Company in 1990 before the house of 105 Hoa Hung (Ward 12, District 10) was blown away by the wind and fell down the road. A person who escaped to death was narrow.

Many trees broke and fell due to heavy rain and strong winds

Road deep flood, congestion

Heavy rain lasting many hours on the afternoon of May 28 in Ho Chi Minh City made many flooded roads. According to VietNamNet's report, severe flooding occurred in the area of ​​Cay Go roundabout, 3/2, Hau Giang road (District 6) . the area is considered to be 'focal point' . Especially at Hau Giang street, water depth of 0.5m makes many two-wheelers die.

In Tan Binh district: Truong Cong Dinh, Ba Van and Truong Chinh streets are deeply flooded, and there is a place where it can measure up to 50cm. Many people operate vehicles due to irrespective of the road and the roadside which has derailed. Water poured into people's houses, many people had to use plastic pots, throwing water out.

At Ba Van intersection - Luy Ban Bich, due to prolonged rain to rush hour in the afternoon, confusion, traffic jams have occurred. At the same time, on Cong Hoa Street, thousands of vehicles tailed each other bit by bit, traffic jams lasted about 1.5 km. Hang Xanh roundabout area (Binh Thanh district), Hung Vuong road, Binh Chanh roundabout, Bay Hien roundabout, Dien Bien Phu street (Binh Thanh district), Kha Van Can street (Thu Duc district) . traffic jam lasts more than an hour.

Traffic signal lights ' short-circuited ', traffic forces work to regulate, lack of traffic and many motorbike riders do not comply with traffic laws, running up to the curb, causing serious congestion.

Flooding at Truong Cong Dinh street (Tan Binh district)

Lightning strikes electrical equipment

Also in the rain in the afternoon of May 28, around 14.30, lightning struck down to burn many electrical appliances and household appliances at households in 101 Go Dau alley, Tan Quy ward, Tan Phu district. Many people said that on this hour, lightning hit the 31m-high telecom antenna column that Tan Phu Power Company placed on the terrace of 101/70 Go Dau.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Loan (101/70/8 Go Dau) told her that she saw clearly the sparks coming from this antenna post after two huge explosions. After that, re-checking indoor electronic devices such as TVs and DVD players were all broken. Nearby, Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong (101/70/16 Go Dau) said that the water pump was also broken and inactive.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc (101/70) said after lightning hit the antenna column, a 24 "TV Panasonic signal, a DVD player GL did not work. The entire electricity on the second floor of the next house is also turned off. Meanwhile, Nguyen Thi Cuc (101/72) said that her grandson's laptop was completely broken. The heaviest damage was Mr. Hoang Luong's house (101/31). Sony 29 'liquid crystal display (LCD) TV, worth VND 28 million, which he bought for less than 3 days, no longer shows up; 4 industrial embroidery machines have broken fuses .

The telecom antenna tower of Tan Phu Electricity Company with alley people
Go Dau 101 (Tan Phu district) is the cause of lightning attraction.

In contact with the representatives of the households mentioned above, they believed that the cause of the electronic equipment damage was due to the antenna tower that Tan Phu Power Company placed too high but no grounding line attracted the lightning. out.

However, Mr. Huynh Tri Dung, Director of Tan Phu Power Company disagrees with the above explanation. Dung said that lightning strikes and the existence of the company's antenna tower on the 101/70 rooftop are two different things.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc added that between his family and Tan Phu Power Company, a lease contract for a mobile phone station (BTS) has been signed for a period of 5 years.

Under this contract, Mr. Ngoc's family leases 16m ² to the partner at the rooftop to install the equipment, erect a 31m high antenna tower, install the signal cable from the antenna column to the engine room. To ensure safety, the electricity side drills a combination of piles (maximum of 4 piles) in the land of Mr. Ngoc's house and grounding wiring to the engine room to prevent lightning.

However, when the Tan Phu Power Company staff went down to install grounding wires, there was a strong opposition from people living around because of fear of waves from the antenna column that could affect health.

Tan Phu electricity side has been in constant coordination with local authorities to persuade people to approve the deployment of lightning protection ground wires for antenna posts but have not been implemented due to the earthing location (outside the alley), are in dispute process.

In order to ensure safety for the project and the surrounding people, Tan Phu electricity has implemented the grounding connection of the antenna column into the anchor bolt (this bolt is welded to the reinforcement of the building 101/70). However, the people did not accept and at the request of the Tan Phu electricity side to remove the antenna column.

Tran Duy