Life is miserable on the banks of the dyke

The house was flooded, there was no shelter, thousands of snake dragons dragged each other to set up temporary shelters on the dike. In the sun, they cooked rice on the side of the dike, but the sky was raining and steamed with shrimp noodles.

On the afternoon of October 19, on the dyke line Lam ran through Hung Nguyen district (Nghe An), hundreds of local people called each other to reinforce more tents. The red-green tents are long kilometers long and stretch on the dike crest interspersed with cattle cages and shelter.

At the foot of the dike, a few small boats drifted down toward the flooded houses looking for furniture or carrying straw to dry the dike for food. Each herd of pigs and cows has spread freely throughout the asphalt road surface on the dike surface.

Since the water rises, people have to run to the shore to avoid flooding.

Forcing the cow next to the signpost indicating along the road, Mr. Nguyen Van Nam in Hung Loi commune said that his family had to " pay capital " on the left of Lam for 5 days. The ' new house ' of 5 people and 2 cows and cows are 4 bamboo stakes lined up and the canvas is about 6 m2 covered.

' This is a water area, people are not strange about flooding, but this year the water is big, so fast. Cattle and buffaloes are driven up to the dyke and not brought with furniture. In the daytime, the buffaloes and cows were left on the dike, the settlers were outside but at night, both people and cows had to sleep together, 'Nam said.

Like Mr. Nam, hundreds of households in 5 hamlets in Hung Loi commune have been running tents on flood days before. Sitting side by side on the canvas, Mr. Tran Dinh Hoang looked blankly at the Lam river that was swirling and swirling against the dyke body. ' On that day, it was pouring rain, the water was billowing and high, the villagers knocked and started to move. The elderly, the children are prioritized on the dike before, young and middle-aged stay behind. Although he was mentally prepared, the water returned so quickly, the people almost had to hand on the dyke , 'Hoang said.

Listening to the news of the flood, the villagers called each other to reinforce the tent for sure.

After three days and three nights, the rain started to fade gradually, thinking that the country would withdraw quickly, Hung Nguyen people would return home, but did not expect the flood from the upstream to continue pouring into the river, so the river level did not come down. . Hundreds of people here continue to try and stay on the dike.

During the day, the people in the ' makeshift tent ' radiate to places to earn a living or to go home from their homes to make ends meet to try to find what remains. In the afternoon, they gathered on the dike to talk water up, water down, stories of rescue, stories of buffaloes and cows . In the strong, fishy smell of the kind of malice that people and animals left, sometimes the afternoon story of the people on the dyke are interrupted by the roar of the stray mother cows.

Sitting at the stream of water, Tran Thi Lan said: ' My house is on the beach, hundreds of meters from the edge of the river, never flooded so badly. Adults, children now do not have clothes to replace, the children have to avoid flooding, the couple set up tents living with cattle but do not know when the country will withdraw. Most people in the village only have a set of clothes to wear, the rain is wet, the sun is dry because all the furniture and possessions are flooded . '

A corner of tents on the dyke.

The eating of the people running flooding is also extremely bad. It did not rain, they cooked rice on the slope, then ate on the spot. But when it rains, we have to starve or hold steam with shrimp noodles because we cannot cook anything. 'The most difficult is rice and clean water. The well is flooded deep in the flood, people have to row a few kilometers to ask for water from the upper communes, many people still have to buy for 10-20 thousand dong a can , 'Lan sad. When eating, there was no bowl of chopsticks, many families had to take a boat home, find the bowls and pass their hands from one house to another. Some have to eat quickly.

People 's food and input stories have been difficult, and' resolving output 'is also extremely difficult. The whole area is flooded, only the dyke remains. The needs of defecation, urination are the children to perform on the body of the dike, and the adults have to wait until the evening to resolve. 'In the evening, men and women come down to the edge of the river to settle, sometimes meeting those places and blushing ', Lan smiled and smiled.

* Clip Life on the bank of flood dikes

* Clip of National Highway 1A immense

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