With more floods appearing imminent and possible landslides, people in Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces have moved their belongings to safety and stockpiled essential items. 

Soldiers take a woman to safety on Friday as floodwaters rose rapidly in her neighborhood in Vinh Town in Nghe An Province, north central Vienam. More than 50 families, including hers, were moved to shelters by Friday.

It has been raining non-stop since Storm Molave, the biggest to hit Vietnam in 20 years, made landfall in the central region on Wednesday morning, and swollen hydropower dams have been discharging water.

In the last three days Nghe An has received up to 805 mm. Rainfall of 180 mm a day is considered heavy.

A little girl is rescued from a flooded residential area in Vinh by soldiers.

Authorities in remote Chau Khe Commune in Con Cuong District evacuated 68 people on Friday morning after a long crack appeared on a mountainside nearby.

Owner of an auto salon in Vinh has sent the vehicles to a high area to escape the floods.

Rescue forces help a family in Quang Son Commune, Do Luong District, hoist a washing machine to safety

A man rows a boat past a school in Nghe An’s Thanh Chuong District. Many residential areas in the province were under two meters under water as of Friday.

In neighboring Ha Tinh, rescuers scrambled to evacuate patients from the Ha Tinh General Hospital after Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street in front of the hospital was submerged under up to a meter of water on Friday.

People are buying as much food as possible to stockpile in case the floods do not recede soon.

Farmers in Tan Lam Huong Commune in Thach Ha District bring their cattle to a government office for safety.

"During the floods earlier this month, our family lost 1.5 tons of rice and the buffalo is the most valuable asset we have left," Dang Huu Nguyen, 71, says.

Residents of Bac Ha Ward in Ha Tinh Town, the province's capital of the same name, haul an inflatable boat in case of emergency.

Vietcombank staff in Ha Tinh Town have placed sand bags at the front door to keep out the floodwaters.

Even before Molave came, the central region had suffered from prolonged heavy rains, historic flooding and deadly landslides for three weeks since October 6.

At least 230 people have died due to floods and landslides in the region this month, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a meeting Friday.