The inhabitants of Danang, the third largest city in the country, are prohibited from going out in the street.
Le Monde with afp
Typhon Noru touched Earth in Vietnam on Wednesday morning, causing power cuts in the center of the country, where tens of thousands of inhabitants were sheltered from powerful winds and heavy rains. “The position of the Center of the Typhon at 4 am on September 28 is between Danang and Quang Nam,” said the country’s national hydrometeorological forecast center, adding that the wind speed was between 103 km/h and 117 km /h.
In Danang, the third largest city in Vietnam, where the inhabitants had prohibited from going out on the street, buildings were tested by the strong winds, which overthrowed trees and torn from the roofs, according to journalists from the Agency France-Presse (AFP) on site. At the country level, more than 300,000 people have taken refuge in shelters, meteorologists having identified Noru as one of the most important storms to hit the country of Southeast Asia.
“We were prepared”
The authorities announced on Tuesday evening that they had evacuated nearly 260,000 people from their houses, including in the tourist town of Hoi An, where the Hoai river was in the process of overflowing. “The typhoon was terrible. I could not sleep, because the wind was so strong and noisy, told AFP Nguyen Thi Hien, a resident. I heard the sound of the trees and panels that fell outside. I was afraid. But we were prepared, so fortunately, the damage is not so high. “
On Wednesday morning, residents were already busy getting rid of the pieces of sheet metal and snatched vegetation that blocked certain roads and damaged cars. Tourists were also walking around and took advantage of the few shops already open. Three hundred houses in the coastal province of Quang Tri saw their roof torn Tuesday evening while the winds were starting to strengthen.
In Vietnam, the strength of the wind was lower than initially expected, but meteorologists have planned that heavy rains would continue during the day, and warn possible landslides and serious floods. Almost half of the airports have been closed, as are schools and offices in several provinces in the center of the country, including Danang. Power cuts have also been reported.
ten dead in the Philippines
The Ministry of Defense mobilized around 40,000 soldiers and 200,000 security agents, equipped with armored vehicles and boats in preparation for rescue and rescue operations, the state media explained. The central section of the highway connecting the capital, Hanoi, in the North, to the agglomeration of Ho Chi Minh Ville, in the South, was also closed.
Noru, then classified Supertyphon, struck the Philippines this week, killing ten, including five rescuers, according to a new official assessment. Eight people are also missing. After Vietnam, Typhon Noru is expected in Laos, then in Thailand. The Thai authorities predict his arrival on Thursday, but in the degraded form of a tropical storm, less strong than a typhoon. Strong rains are expected in the provinces of the north, northeast and the center of the kingdom, until Sunday, with risks of flooding locally.