Saigon severely flooded due to high tides

VietNamNet Bridge - Heavy rains coinciding with high tides this morning has submerged many roads in Ho Chi Minh City, causing traffic chaos.

VietNamNet Bridge - Heavy rains coinciding with high tides this morning has submerged many roads in Ho Chi Minh City, causing traffic chaos.

Tan Binh District is flooded most seriously, making many people very hard to get to the office. Other roads such as Huynh Tan Phat, Le Van Luong (District 7), Highway 13, Binh Loi (Binh Thanh District), Tran Nao, Luong Dinh Cua (District 2) are also 30 - 40 cm deep under water. Traffic congestions occur in many places.

The HCM City Steering Board for Flood Control and Search-Rescue released an urgent warning of the tropical cyclone in the East Sea and asked people and competent departments to prepare to cope with the bad weather.

According to the tide forecast on September 30 of the Southern Region Meteorological and Hydrological Station, the water level measured at Phu An station on the Saigon River was 1.47 m high and it will increase in the coming days, to 1.52 m on October 1; 1.54 on October 2; and 1.52 m on October 3.

At the same time, the upstream reservoirs like Tri An (Dong Nai River) and Dau Tieng (Saigon River) are discharging water.

Meanwhile, the tropical depression off the coast of the central region is likely to strengthen into a hurricane. At 1 am of October 1, the 7th-grade tropical depression was 450 km to the east off the coast of Danang, Phu Yen. It is forecasted to be 260km from the Paracel Islands.

From the central southern region to the south, due to the influence of the tropical depression, there will have rains in the evening and at night. Some places in the southern part of the Central Highlands, the North East and the Mekong Delta will have heavy rains. Particularly, in Ho Chi Minh City, tropical depression will cause heavy rains, which will coincide with high tide in early October to make severe floods this week.