HCM City continues to wrestle with flood tide
Flood tide continues to
disrupt the daily activities of people in Ho Chi Minh City, staying at a
high level of 1.65m on late October 21, receding just 3cm from the
record high 1.68m one day earlier.
Flood tide continues to
disrupt the daily activities of people in Ho Chi Minh City, staying at a
high level of 1.65m on late October 21, receding just 3cm from the
record high 1.68m one day earlier.
Many roads and residential areas are submerged under 0.3 – 0.5m of water.
According to the Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme
in HCM City, the high flood tide from 1.58 – 1.68m in the past
few days inundated 16 roads in the inner area and overflowed many
water-retention walls.
Le Thi Xuan Lan from the
Southern Regional Hydro-Meteorological Centre said that the flood tide
level in HCM City has continuously rising since 2006, which is
obviously due to impacts of the climate change.
She
noted that flood tide usually reaches its crest in November or
December, warning the city to brace for possible higher level of flood
at the end of the year.-VNA