The Prime Minister requested ministries and localities to proactively respond to the risk of floods and landslides.

On October 6, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed an official dispatch requesting ministries, branches and localities to proactively respond to the risk of rain, floods, flash floods and landslides caused by storm No. 11.

Floodwaters flooded the streets in Van Son ward ( Son La province) on October 6.

Accordingly, the Prime Minister requested leaders of ministries, branches, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities in the Northern region and Thanh Hoa not to be negligent or subjective, but to continue to strictly implement instructions on responding to storm No. 11; focus on directing close monitoring, regularly and continuously updating developments of the situation, promptly, effectively and synchronously deploying measures to prevent, combat, and respond to rain, floods, flash floods, and landslides according to their functions, tasks, and authority; promptly report to competent authorities for direction and handling of issues beyond their authority.

The Prime Minister assigned the Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and cities, especially the provinces in the midland and mountainous regions, to direct and mobilize forces (disaster prevention forces at the grassroots level, police, army, functional forces, militia, youth, etc.) to synchronously and resolutely deploy measures to ensure the safety of people's lives and limit property damage caused by flash floods, landslides; ensure the safety of dykes, reservoirs and dams, and prevent floods from overlapping floods.

The Prime Minister assigned Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to continue directing relevant ministries, branches and localities to closely direct forecasting, urgently deploying work to prevent, respond to, and overcome the consequences of floods after storms...

According to the bulletin of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, this morning, storm No. 11 entered the mainland of Guangxi province - China (near the Vietnam - China border area) and weakened into a tropical depression. However, according to the forecast, the circulation of storm No. 11 will cause heavy rain and possibly thunderstorms on October 6 and 7. In the mountainous and midland areas of the North, rainfall will generally be 100-200mm, locally with very heavy rain up to over 300mm (especially at risk of heavy rain over 150mm in 3 hours); in the Northern Delta and Thanh Hoa, there will be moderate to heavy rain with a common rainfall of 50-150mm, locally with very heavy rain over 200mm.

This is a heavy rain right after the recent days of prolonged heavy rain due to the influence of storm No. 10, many places have saturated soil, rivers, lakes and dams are full of water, there is a very high risk of continued major floods on small rivers and streams and upstream, flash floods, landslides in mountainous areas and midlands of the North, North Central, inundation in urban areas and low-lying areas.

LAM NGUYEN

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/thu-tuong-yeu-cau-cac-bo-nganh-dia-phuong-chu-dong-ung-pho-nguy-co-mua-lu-sat-lo-dat-post816601.html