According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, in the past 3 hours (from 2-5pm on July 14), Son La and Ha Giang provinces have had rain, moderate to heavy rain such as: Chieng Cong 1 (Son La) 60mm ; Trung Thanh (Ha Giang) 50.4mm...
In the next 3 - 6 hours, the above provinces will continue to have rain with a common amount of 20-40mm, in some places over 70mm.
High risk of flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on slopes in the above provinces, especially in Muong La, Song Ma, and Thuan Chau districts (Son La); Bac Me, Dong Van, Meo Vac, Vi Xuyen, Yen Minh (Ha Giang).
The National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting also warns that the impact of flash floods and landslides can have very negative impacts on the environment and threaten people's lives.
At the same time, it causes local traffic congestion, affects the movement of vehicles, destroys civil and economic works, causing damage to production, economic and social activities. festival.
Floods not only caused serious landslides in Ha Giang, in Son La province, from July 13 to 14, there were also moderate to heavy rains in the province, causing landslides and sedimentation, causing congestion. Local traffic in some locations.
Accordingly, slope landslides, road surface sedimentation, culverts, and ditches have an estimated volume of 460m3 / 8 locations, causing traffic jams on Highway 37.
In addition, the landslide volume was estimated at nearly 3,000 m3 in 3/8 locations, causing traffic jams for more than 3 hours on Highway 43.
In particular, on National Highway 279D, heavy rain caused slope landslides, road surface sedimentation, culverts, ditches with an estimated volume of 6,285m3 / 72 locations and traffic jams at many locations.
