However, the responsibility for organizing and implementing natural disaster prevention and control throughout the area, ensuring the safety of the people belongs to local leaders.
First of all, it is a propaganda work, information about Typhoon Wipha must reach each household, each fishing boat at sea. In addition to information from newspapers, local authorities must organize a network at the grassroots level to notify people, paying special attention to production households at sea, in remote areas, on fields, and in mountainous areas.
Second, people should not operate or produce at sea, in areas with warnings. Require boats to anchor in safe places, do not let people hold on to seafood cages because they are afraid. There have been many cases where aquaculture farmers have stayed on rafts to rescue their property, leading to loss of property and no more people.
Third is to organize the evacuation of people from the storm's danger zone. For households living along the coast, they must be taken to storm shelters, and food and provisions must be prepared to support the people. In addition to coastal households, households living at the foot of mountains and hills at risk of landslides also need to be relocated to ensure absolute safety.
Storm prevention not only before but also after the storm, the storm circulation leading to flash floods, the tragedy of Lang Nu, Lao Cai last year is a painful lesson, it cannot happen again.
A fierce storm has hit, threatening human life everywhere, not only at sea, on the mountains but also on national highways, in the city. Therefore, no one should be subjective or arbitrarily go out, travel on national highways, routes, or dangerous areas.
In the past few days, just a few storms have caused heavy damage in many places, many cars were hit by trees, not to mention the disaster of a tourist boat sinking in Ha Long Bay, killing 36 people and leaving 3 missing. Therefore, local authorities need to deploy warning work, limit travel areas, to prevent accidents caused by fallen trees, electrical short circuit, swept away by water and other accidents caused by corrugated iron and flying tiles.
Every province and city that implements good storm prevention, protects people's safety, and quickly organizes post-storm recovery activities so that people can soon return to normal life and production, that is a demonstration of the capacity of local leaders.
