Storm No. 10 may reach level 16 in the coming hours, don't let flood pile up on flood

Updated position and path of storm No. 10 Bualoi, which is moving very quickly towards our mainland. Source: Vietnam Disaster Monitoring System/National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting

On September 28, the Government Office announced that Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had just signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 174/CD-TTg requesting ministries, branches and localities to focus on responding to storm No. 10 and floods, landslides, flash floods and landslides.

According to the telegram, storm No. 10 has strengthened to level 12, gusting to level 15, and is moving very quickly towards our mainland and will get stronger the closer it gets to shore, possibly reaching level 13, gusting to level 16 in the coming hours.

According to the forecast of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, from the evening of September 27, the sea area of provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Ngai may have wind level 6, then increase to level 8-9, near the storm center level 10-13, gust level 14-16, waves 5-7m high.

The storm is forecast to make landfall during high tide, combined with storm surge and large waves that could cause sea dikes to overflow, break, and collapse, flooding low-lying coastal residential areas.

The Prime Minister requested the Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities in the Northern and North Central regions to direct:

- Continue to check, call and guide ships still operating at sea to move out of dangerous areas or to storm shelters to ensure safety.

- Based on the specific situation in the locality, decide to restrict activities at sea and along the coast, prohibit going to sea, control and limit traffic, and let students stay home from school to ensure safety during the time affected by storms and heavy rains and floods.

- Immediately deploy protection and reinforcement measures to ensure the safety of dykes, dams, especially sea dykes, river estuaries, and key dams; proactively operate and regulate appropriate reservoirs to be ready to receive floods, ensure the safety of dams, and prevent floods from overlapping floods.

- Immediately deploy the work of tying down and reinforcing houses, warehouses, headquarters of agencies, units, educational and medical establishments, production, business and service establishments to reduce damage to production, especially agricultural production and aquaculture at sea and along the coast.

- Organize inspection, proactively evacuate and immediately relocate households in dangerous areas to safe places, paying special attention to places where there has been land subsidence, places at risk of flash floods, landslides, and deep flooding.

- Proactively arrange forces, means, reserve food, provisions, and necessities in vulnerable areas at risk of being isolated due to landslides and floods to be ready to support people, not letting people go hungry, thirsty, or cold, and to deploy rescue work when bad situations occur...

- Assign comrades in the standing committee, standing committee, and leaders of departments, branches, and sectors to go to key areas to directly inspect, urge, and direct the implementation of response work to storms, floods, landslides, flash floods, and landslides.

Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense and Public Security direct military and police forces stationed in the area to review plans, proactively arrange forces and means to be ready to support people in responding to storms, floods, and assist in evacuation and relocation of residents, and rescue when requested.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha was assigned to establish a forward command committee in the provinces where the storm passed to focus on handling, preventing, and overcoming the consequences of storms, floods, and landslides.

Laodong.vn

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