The Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control and
the National Committee on Search and Rescue on August 5 sent an urgent
dispatch to localities and ministries calling for active response to a
risk of a storm that may come from a tropical depression.
By 4 pm the same day, the depression was around 280km from the east of
Vietnam’s Song Tu Tay island. It is likely to grow into a storm
with a rapid wind speed and unpredictable movements.
The committees urged its chapters in provinces and cities from the
central Thanh Hoa province to the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau
to inform ships operating offshore of the position and movement of the
depression in order to escape from the dangerous area.
Between July 27 and August 5, heavy rains resulted from storm Jebi,
which hit northern provinces on August 3, caused serious flooding in
Yen Bai province.
More than 40 houses were damaged
while many roads and a wide area of crops were submerged with an
estimated loss of nearly 11 billion VND (over 500,000 USD).-VNA