Photo caption: Parts of local road from the Trung Thanh Commune People Committee to So village were ravaged by heavy rains and floods.

 Statistics showed that the disasters killed two – Ha Van To, born in 1944, and his wife Luong Thi Tom, born in 1945, while damaging 40 houses and forcing 16 households to evacuate to safety places. Twenty four areas in communal and village roads and roads to production region were ravaged. The road from the communal People’s Committee to So village was totally blocked. Local schools were submerged by mud and floodwater. Meanwhile, nearly 15 hectares of crop and 22,300 square metres of fish farm were also destroyed.

 Visiting Ha village, we met Ha Van Suong, the son of the dead victims of the disasters, who told us that on October 11, his parents released cattle near Tong stream and took a rest at a tent about 2km from their house as usual.

 That morning, it was raining very heavy, he said. Before the old couple met their demise in the incident, Suong made a phone call to them and learnt that floodwater was not reaching their tent. "That was my last conversation with my parents because

at about 10:00 when the water went down, we reach the tent and found that soil and land buried our parents and the tent,” Suong recalled.

 Following the searching of the victims, local authorities promptly took actions to recover from the disaster. In order to ensure traffic operation, the commune mobilised all civil partisans, police and locals and two excavators of a local business to reopen the roads.

 However, the roads to Thung Phat production area in Bay village and Thung Khuong in Bua village, which saw severe landslides, have so far opened for pedestrians only.

 More seriously, the road to So village has been completely blocked and destroyed, forcing authorities to supply food and necessities to 58 households in the village through the jungle.

 Mud thickness of 20cm encroaching school yards has been cleaned, allowing children to resume their studying. Meanwhile, broken water pipes have been repaired, ensuring clean water supply to locals. As many as 80 percent of households suffering from the calamity have been basically recovered.

 Though, the evacuation of 16 households from risky areas has still faced difficulties. Luong Van Duong, Vice Chairman of the communal People’s Committee said that the locality has managed to move only one household of Luong Van Nhat in Bay village, while the rest 15 households have been informed of landslide risks and advised to seek safety shelters. The majority of the families are poor, while budget for the evacuation is limited, he said.

 Duong noted that the locality is mostly mountainous terrain with a small number of flat land, thus making it difficult to find suitable shelters for the households.

 Currently, disaster recovery in the commune has basically finished, while locals has gradually resumed their normal lives./.

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