Severe thunderstorms and lightning strike, flooding everywhere in Ho Chi Minh City

After 10 p.m., many places in Ho Chi Minh City, from the center to the suburbs, experienced heavy rain, accompanied by extreme weather phenomena such as thunderstorms, strong winds, causing danger to road users.

The heavy rain that lasted for more than an hour caused severe flooding in many areas. Strong winds blew away many signs and knocked down trees.

Flooding on Pham Van Chieu Street. Photo: Nguyen Phuong Thao

Previously, at 9:30 p.m., the Southern Hydrometeorological Station issued a warning of rain with thunderstorms and lightning for the entire Ho Chi Minh City area.

According to the agency, monitoring satellite cloud images, weather radar images and lightning positioning shows that thunderstorms are developing strongly and causing thunderstorms in almost all districts of Ho Chi Minh City. In addition, thunderstorms in Binh Duong, Dong Nai and Vung Tau are also moving towards Ho Chi Minh City.

Floodwaters on Phan Van Tri Street. Photo: Man Nhi

This agency warns that tonight, thunderstorms will continue to cause rain with thunderstorms and lightning in the entire Ho Chi Minh City area, with some places experiencing moderate to heavy rain. After that, the clouds will move and expand in an east-northeast - west-southwest direction to other neighboring districts and counties, causing thunderstorms.

At the same time, the storm clouds that are currently present in the neighboring provinces after moving to Ho Chi Minh City will continue to cause showers and thunderstorms for the entire city. Rainfall is generally from 10-30mm, in some places over 40mm. During thunderstorms, beware of lightning and strong gusts of wind of about level 5-7 (8-17m/s).

Flooding on Song Hanh Street (Tan Hung Thuan Ward, District 12).

Signs in many places were knocked down by wind and rain.

WATCH CLIP: Flooding on Song Hanh Road

At 11pm, Nguyen Van Khoi Street (Go Vap District) was flooded like a river. A series of cars and motorbikes were "swimming" on the road, many of them stalled.

Father and son rode their motorbikes home late at night, in the middle of a vast expanse of water.

Passing through deep flood, many cars stalled.

Mr. Phat, a technology car driver, lamented: “I earn tens of thousands of dong per ride. Now that my car has broken down, I have to spend millions to hire a tow truck to repair it.”

Urban drainage company staff clear the flow

WATCH CLIP: Flooding on Nguyen Van Khoi Street

WATCH CLIP: Heavy rain, water sprayed out from the manhole into a column of water, on Hoang Sa street (ward 5, Tan Binh district).

Heavy rain caused many houses and roads to be heavily flooded in Dong Nai. This evening, heavy rain over a large area in Dong Nai caused many houses and roads to be heavily flooded.

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