Super typhoon Yagi, the worst storm to hit Vietnam in thirty years, has severely devastated the country’s northern sections. As of Tuesday, according to officials, there have been at least 127 confirmed deaths and 54 unreported deaths. When the storm hit land on Saturday, it left significant flooding, landslides, and heavy rain behind.
Hundreds of people are stranded on rooftops in many regions as a result of the disaster, and many of them have posted frantic pleas for help on social media. Yagi has caused significant damage to infrastructure and has cut off electricity to 1.5 million people. In a video taken on Monday, the Phong Chau bridge in the province of Phu Tho collapsed, sending many automobiles plummeting into the river below.
Yagi is expected to continue wreaking havoc as it moves westward, even though it dissipates into a tropical depression. A local, Phan Thi Tuyet, of her loss and how she and her animals had sought refuge on higher ground. She considered her situation dire because she lost everything to the water.
The storm has torn house roofs off, wrecked bridges, and produced significant floods and landslides with wind gusts as high as 150 km/h (92 mph). The government has warned 401 communes in 18 northern provinces; several one-story homes are nearly entirely submerged in Thai Nguyen and Yen Bai.
In addition to the fatalities and missing persons, floods and landslides have injured at least 752 others. Before coming to Vietnam, Super Typhoon Yagi had already claimed 24 lives in the Philippines and southern China. While the exact impacts of climate change on specific events are yet unknown, meteorologists predict that storms will likely intensify.
