On August 29, the Thanh Hoa Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said that due to the influence of the tropical convergence zone connecting with the tropical depression in the East Sea, from August 24 to now, floods have occurred on major rivers, many places exceeding alert level 3.
Up to now, the 4 communes of Xuan Chinh, Yen Nhan, Kim Tan and Bat Mot still have isolated residential areas, of which the entire Bat Mot commune is isolated. The whole province has evacuated more than 14,100 households with more than 49,000 people, of which about 5,000 households in coastal and low-lying areas have returned home when the water recedes.
Initial damage statistics: 2 deaths, 2 injuries; 756 damaged houses, 11,899 houses were flooded; 33 schools, 3 health stations and 6 cultural houses were damaged, flooded.
In the agricultural sector, more than 21,600 hectares of rice, 4,200 hectares of crops, 1,200 hectares of forest and thousands of trees were damaged; nearly 43,000 poultry, 112 livestock died and were swept away; more than 5,300 hectares of traditional fish farming were flooded.
Regarding infrastructure, the whole province recorded more than 16 flooding points on national and provincial highways; 767 landslides with a volume of nearly 85,000m3 of rock and soil; 366 broken electric poles, 715 power poles tilted, many power lines and transformer stations damaged.
The dike system also experienced a series of landslides and leaks, including 9km of Thach Dinh dike being overflowed. By the morning of August 29, the whole province had 66/104 pumping stations in operation with 282 pumps for drainage.
Thanh Hoa province, functional agencies and localities are urgently implementing many solutions to support people in flooded and landslide areas, areas that are still isolated and isolated.
