Flooded roads, traffic jams after heavy rain in Ho Chi Minh City

The rain lasted for more than two hours, causing many roads in the east of the city to be deeply flooded, causing long traffic jams, forcing people to get home in the rain after work on the afternoon of June 28.

People wade through flooded water to push their dead motorbikes to find a place to fix them. Photo: Minh Tuan

At around 3 p.m., thunderstorms caused heavy rain over a wide area in many areas of Ho Chi Minh City. The heavy rain lasted until rush hour, causing flooding on many streets such as Dinh Bo Linh, Ung Van Khiem (Binh Thanh District), Hiep Binh, To Ngoc Van (Thu Duc City)... Some sections were flooded so deeply that vehicles stalled, forcing people to wade through the water to find a place to fix their vehicles.

The Ung Van Khiem street section from Nguyen Huu Canh bridge to the Martyrs' Monument intersection, more than a kilometer long, was severely congested. Thousands of motorbikes and cars inched their way home. The number of vehicles pouring from the city center toward the Eastern bus station grew larger and larger, encroaching on the adjacent lane, turning the street into a one-way street.

Thousands of motorbikes crowded Ung Van Khiem Street, causing a traffic jam of more than one kilometer due to flooding. Photo: Dinh Van

According to the Southern Hydrometeorological Station, strong thunderstorms have caused heavy rain in Ho Chi Minh City. Rainfall measured in many places is from 20-30 mm. Some areas in the South such as Dong Nai and Binh Duong have rain of more than 90 mm.

Today is the first day that more than one million candidates nationwide begin their high school graduation exams. Bad weather has made it difficult for candidates to get to the exam sites as well as for their parents to pick them up.

Dinh Van

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