Mass evacuations while typhoon Kajiki beats the Côte du Vietnam

Typhon Kajiki brought torrential rains on Monday on the north coast of the North Center of Vietnam, slaughtering trees, flooding houses and triggering mass evacuations from coastal areas.

Kajiki was on the coast of the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh in the afternoon, with a wind speed going to 118-133 km / h of 166 km / h, according to the country’s weather agency.

“It’s terrifying,” said Dang Xuan Phuong, a 48 -year -old resident from Cua Lo, a tourist town in Nghe, a province directly struck by the storm.

“When I look at the highest floors, I could see waves as high as two meters, and the water flooded the roads around us,” Phuong told Reuters.

According to the state media, power in several areas in Ha Tinh province had been cut, the roofs were blown away and floating fishing farms were swept away.

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Typhoon Kajiki forces the evacuation of more than 500,000 in Vietnam

More than 500,000 people were ordered to leave their homes in coastal Vietnam while the Typhon Kajiki touched it, causing winds up to 130 km / h. Managers say that six provinces risk sudden floods and landslides.

Vietnam had warned airports, closed schools and started mass evacuations when it was preparing for the most powerful storm so far this year.

The Vietnamese state media have declared plans to evacuate nearly 600,000 people in the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang, where more than 152,000 houses are in high -risk areas.

More than 16,500 soldiers and 107,000 paramilitary staff were mobilized to help evacuation and stand up for research and rescue.

According to the civil aviation Authority of Vietnam. Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air have canceled dozens of flights to and since the region on Sunday and Monday.

The typhoon began as a weak tropical depression on Friday, but became a powerful storm in less than two days, corresponding to the Yagi typhoon from last year as one of the fastest in the region, according to the state media.

Last year, Typhoon Yagi killed around 300 people and caused around $ 4.6 billion in CDN damage.

With a long coastline in front of the Southern China Sea, Vietnam is subject to storms that are often deadly and trigger floods and dangerous mud shifts.

The meteorological agency said precipitation could reach 500 millimeters from Monday afternoon until the end of Tuesday in several parts of northern Vietnam.

Kajiki also struck China, said dead

Kajiki has already caused a devastation in China, with strong winds and heavy rains whipping Hainan Island and neighboring parts of Guangdong Province on Sunday. About 20,000 people were evacuated from high -risk areas, the official Xinhua news agency in China reported.

A man from Vietnam Nghe An Province died on Friday after being electrocuted while he was trying to secure his roof before the storm, reported the state media.

The storm should move inside land in Laos and north of Thailand.

Scientists published a study last year by warning that the seas warmed by climate change will lead cyclones from Southeast Asia to get closer to the Earth, to strengthen more quickly and to last longer, to increase the risks for cities.

“It is frightening to see our projections from last year that are already materializing,” said Benjamin Horton, dean of the Energy and Environment School and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of the City of Hong Kong.

He said that the speed at which these changes took place was a “clear signal” that the climate crisis moves faster than expected. “We no longer predict the future-we live it,” he said.