Many Quang Binh people eat white rice, shrimp noodles live on the roof

Flooded water, electricity grid cut, many families in Tuyen Hoa (Quang Binh) can only cook rice cooker with white salt. There are 3-meter flooded houses, unable to cook on the attic next to the roof, eating live noodles.

Located close to Gianh river, Van Hoa is the sunken commune of Tuyen Hoa district, Quang Binh province. At 22:00 pm on October 31, the river water rises causing flooding of the village and flooding into people's houses. By noon November 1, more than 1,000 houses in the commune were flooded almost all of the first floor, the level 4 house could only see the cap.

The vast floodwaters erase all the boundaries of the lake, the way, and the movement must use boats or rafts. At the Van Hoa bridge across the Gianh River, many families take trucks, buffaloes and motorcycles to avoid flooding. Relatives stretched, bringing more green bananas to the animals.

Floods caused tens of thousands of houses in Quang Binh to flood after 0.5 to 3m.(Photo: Hoang Tao).

Living with the flood for many years, most people in Van Hoa commune guarded some wooden slats close to the roof, called "tra " , to store property. The flood this time is slow so many families have time to move their furniture and cattle.

Sitting on a pillow on the second floor of a house in Thuong Phu village, Van Hoa commune, Tran Thi Thoi sadly said: "In 15 days, running 2 oversized floods. The previous flood just got out of the yard, the new flood came in, the water continue to offer when you don't know when to stop ".

At noon this time, Ms Thoi cooks a rice cooker, but half of her life is half-cooked because the rain and flood are out of power, food is not available, she must eat with white salt. The two children could not eat rice, and chewed on live shrimp noodles. Wanting to borrow things from neighbors, her husband, like many others, swung on the wire, moving from house to house.

The stable of her house At the time of building 3m high, the chickens and ducks were locked into a stable and placed on a buoy, some of them could not be locked up by flooding, or found their own parking space."After the flood, I don't know how to restore this life," she said.

The house was flooded with the roof, but Tran Thi Hoa remained behind to keep the property from being swept away by the flood.(Photo: Hoang Tao).

Located close to the Gianh River, Mrs. Cao Thi Xuyen's house in Thuong Phu Village, Van Hoa Commune, the water is flooded to the roof, flowing. On the outside, the television floated, the dog lay temporarily on the fishing nets.

Mrs. Xuyen brought some leftover clothes and clothes from the previous flood to "check" to avoid flooding. The temporarily built kitchen inside the aluminum pots used to cook rice fills the flood. "If the water continues to rise, the roof must be raised," Mrs. Xuyen said when the water level was only about 0.5 meters from her.

Besides, Tran Thi Hoa's family also had to live close to the roof to avoid flooding. Without the kitchen, Mrs. Hoa and her three children eat live noodles from last night until this afternoon."Property is almost gone but I still have to stay home to keep a little bit left , " Hoa explained, not moving to a higher place.

Mr. Nguyen Tien Hanh, Chairman of Van Hoa commune said that being warned about the flood due to the impact of cold air, from the previous two days, people actively moved assets and cattle to high places. Therefore, the commune has not recorded human damage, but some cattle and poultry have been swept away by water.

According to the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Quang Binh has 10,000 houses in 6 districts and towns inundated by 0.5-3 m in the afternoon. Highway 12 is divided into sections, many communes are isolated by floodwaters. The railway is 5 points in landslide, 700m in length, causing the ship to move at a limited speed of 5km / h.

Ms. Cao Thi Xuyen listed wooden slats against the roof to avoid flooding.Meal in the middle of the meal with white salt.(Photo: Hoang Tao).

The Central Hydrometeorological Center said that the impact of cold air in combination with the high east wind, three days in the Central provinces has heavy rain, causing flood water to rise.

At noon November 1, the flood on Gianh and Kien Giang rivers (Quang Binh) reached its peak and was falling. The flood peak on Gianh river in Mai Hoa is 7.93 on alarm 3 (the most dangerous level) is 1.43m; on Kien Giang river in Le Thuy is 2.93 m, exceeding the alarm 3 by about 0.2 m.

It is predicted that serious flooding will continue to occur in Minh Hoa, Tuyen Hoa, Bo Trach, Quang Trach, Ba Don and Le Thuy towns (Quang Binh) with a depth of about 1-2.5m. In Ha Tinh, the districts of Huong Son, Huong Khe, Vu Quang, Cam Xuyen and Duc Tho are also deeply inundated.

Two weeks ago, due to the impact of tropical depression combined with cold air, Quang Binh suffered a record flood that killed 21 people, 92,000 houses flooded 0.5-3.5m. Currently, people have not yet overcome the consequences of the flood.