Central province picks up the pieces after Storm Noru havoc

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Nghe An residents are trying to salvage what's left of their assets and beginning an arduous journey back to normal after four days of torrential rains flooded over 17,400 homes.

The central province suffered the heaviest rainfall during Storm Noru at 200-600 millimeters since it made landfall Wednesday. Thirteen of its 21 districts were inundated and seven people died. The above picture shows Yen Thanh District with over 2,000 houses flooded, some with water as high as one meter.

Emergency assistance staff help transport pigs of local residents to dry land. Over 400 buffalos, cows and pigs were killed in the flooding. 

Several residents of Hung Nguyen District hung their motorbikes up when the water rose by over a meter inside their houses. 

Hundreds of residents in Dien Chau District got together to help a poultry farm cook 4,000 chickens that drowned in the flooding. The meat will be used as animal feed, they said. 

Nearly 90,000 poultry fowl were killed by the flooding in Nghe An.

Emergency assistance staff use boats to reach residents in flooded areas and give them food and water. 

A flooded aquaculture farm is Hoang Mai District. Over 7,600 hectares of such farms were flooded in the province.

Residents harvest spring onions from a vegetable garden not heavily damaged by the flooding, which destroyed over 1,600 hectares of rice fields, orchards and flower gardens in the province.

Over 300 people, including military personnel and police, stayed overnight Thursday evening to reinforce six meters of an embankment on the banks of the Lam Tra River in Hung Nguyen District.

Over 8,000 meters of dike in Nghe An have been destroyed.

Emergency assistance staff help reinforce a house in danger because of eroded foundation. Over 170 houses in the province were damaged, some pushed to the edge of collapse. 

The flooding destroyed 15 meters of railway tracks in Quynh Luu District, blocking train traffic for hours. A total of 65,000 meters of railway in the province were damaged.

Rainfall has reduced since Saturday morning and flood waters are receding but slowly. At least five districts in the province are set to remain under water.

Meanwhile, Nghe An’s neighboring province to the north, Thanh Hoa, was expected to experience heavy rainfall and flooding Sunday.