Storm Vamco made landfall in localities around Ha Tinh and Thua Thien-Hue provinces Sunday morning, uprooting trees and damaging many properties
Storm Vamco made landfall in localities around Ha Tinh and Thua Thien-Hue provinces Sunday morning, uprooting trees and damaging many properties.
Quang Binh Province residents placed sand bags the previous night to prevent their sheet roofs from being blown away.
According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the storm was traveling with winds of up to 90 kph at 7 a.m. and made landfall in areas between Ha Tinh and Thua Thien-Hue before weakening into a tropical depression around noon.
A damaged sidewalk in Da Nang City at around 9 a.m.
High tide wrecked a sidewalk in Da Nang.
A large tree uprooted in front of a temple in Thuan An Town in Thua Thien-Hue at 10:30 a.m.
Strong wind blew away metal roofs of a school in Phu Thuan Commune, Phu Van District in Thua Thien-Hue.
Strong waves pounded the residents' properties at 9:30 a.m. in Vinh Linh District, Quang Tri Province.
Soldiers and residents in Quang Nam Province started cleaning up roads at 10 a.m.
A woman sells fruits, flowers and vegetables in the rain on a street in Quang Binh Province. The rains got heavier as the storm hit the area at around 11 a.m.
Boats docked at a wharf in Quang Binh's Dong Hoi Town.
All central Vietnam localities urged people not to leave home from Saturday afternoon onward.
Vamco is November’s third and the year’s 13th storm to hit Vietnam. It killed at least 42 people and left 20 others missing in the Philippines where it hit the main island of Luzon late Wednesday and early Thursday, Reuters reported.
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