VietNamNet Bridge - In addition to three people with minor injuries in Quang Ninh, other provinces do not report any human losses in storm Jebi.

The broken 40m antenna of Dam Ha Post Office, Quang Ninh Province.

After making landfall in northern provinces on August 3, Jebi storm left five people injured and 500 houses unroofed, according to incomplete statistics from the National Committee for Research and Rescue.

Quang Ninh is one of the hardest hit localities with five people injured, two antennas of 42m tall, 14 electric poles and six houses were collapsed.

In addition, more than 460 houses’ roofs were blown off and 200 hectares of rice and food crops were damaged. Total losses were estimated at VND10 billion ($500,000).

In Hai Phong, torrential rains flooded major arteries and residential areas. A house was burned owing to an electrical short in the storm. A road on Cat Ba Island was damaged. A 35KV transmission line was broken.

In Ha Giang, one house was collapsed and two schools and many other houses were unroofed. Heavy rains also submerged arteries, causing traffic chaos in severely flooded areas and great losses of property for locals.

In Vinh Phuc, heavy downpours inundated many streets in the province’s Vinh Yen city and hundreds of hectares of subsidiary crops.

In Bac Giang province, many areas were flooded and more than 1,500 hectares of rice and crops were submerged, a dike was broken.

Some other provinces suffered minor damage, for example Lang Son with one house collapsed and over 100 houses losing roofs and Bac Ninh with 745ha of crops flooded.

Border guards of the coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Ninh Binh have coordinated with local authorities to help people evacuate 253 ships and boats and 882 households, along with more than 1,329 people to safe areas.

According to the National Center for Meteorological Forecasts, from the evening of August 2 to 7pm of August 3, most northern provinces had heavy rain. The rainfall in some places was approximately 200 mm, such as Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Phuc.

On the morning of August 4, rain continued in the northern mountainous provinces like Lai Chau 90 mm, Lao Cai 80 mm, Yen Bai 60 mm, Ha Giang 135 mm, and Bac Kan 70 mm.

Heavy rains caused flooding in the Thai Binh river system. The water level in the Red River system, Thao and Lo rivers also rose quickly.

Jebi was formed from a tropical depression on the central region of the Philippines on July 29 and entered the East Sea on July 30. The depression became a storm on the following day, as the 5th storm on the East Sea since early 2013.

The storm initially moved rather at slow speed. On August 1, the storm began to strengthen and speed up, moving northward to Hainan Island (China). On August 2, the storm with winds reaching level 11 (approximately 120 km/h) swept across the island.

Entering the Gulf of Tonkin, the storm weakened and made landfall in Quang Ninh on the morning of August 3. Along the way, the storm caused rainfall in the Gulf of Tonkin and the entire northeast region.

Xuan Minh