Soldiers evacuate two people from a flooded area on Friday night.
Under the impacts of a cold spell and a tropical convergence zone, the central region received heavy rain throughout Friday.
On Friday evening, the area along Me Suot Street in Hoa Khanh Nam Ward of Lien Chieu District, which is the lowest part of Da Nang, was filled with flood water, and some places were submerged by more than 1.5 m.
Rescuers brought a person who suffered a stroke out of the flood zone.
Hoa Khanh Nam chairman, Bui Trung Khanh, said alleys along Me Suot Street are adjacent to a mountain range west of the city, and rainwater usually flows from there down to the street.
A man carries his backpack, waiting to be taken to a safe place. He said the backpack was everything he could grab and many of his assets had been under water.
Chairman Khanh said all affected by the floods have been arranged to stay in higher houses to wait for the water to recede. If the weather gets worse, they will be evacuated to schools and public buildings. The government will provide them with food and other necessities.
Dinh Thi Tu Uyen, 27, and her five-month-old daughter were moved to a neighbor's house for temporary shelter.
She said that around 6:00 p.m., the water was knee-deep in her rented apartment and kept rising. As she was waiting with the baby upstairs, rescuers came and saved them.
Many parts of Lien Chieu District suffered power outages due to the floods and heavy rains.
Nguyen Thi Kim Nga, who owns a house on Me Suot Street, let five people who currently stay in rented apartments in a small alley take shelter at her place.
"I share my food with them and they will sleep upstairs, which is completely safe," she said.
Tran Quoc Tien and his girlfriend move on a flooded street near a bus station.
They were on their way from Da Nang to Tien's home in Hoi An Town as the floods paralyzed traffic, and they had to wait for the water to recede.
Chau cleans the mud flowing over into his house on Ton Duc Thang Street.
"My house is submerged by 0.3 m and the street around 0.7," he said, adding that the floods came around 6 p.m. following heavy rains from 1 p.m.
A person walks through a flooded section on Ton Duc Thang Street as a passenger bus was stalled in the distance. The drivers and passengers have abandoned it to take shelter elsewhere.
Along the road, a car and five trucks were also stalled.
Traffic police stand guard on a section of National Highway 1A linking Hue and Da Nang City to prevent vehicles from entering the flooded area.
A tow truck pulls a mini-truck out of the floods.
By 10 p.m. on Friday, it was still raining heavily in the central city.
According to statistics from the meteorological agency, from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, localities from Ha Tinh to Da Nang received heavy rains of 300-380 mm in some places.
It is forecast that from Friday night until Sunday, the area from Ha Tinh to Quang Nam will continue to receive rains of 200-300 mm and up to more than 500 mm in some places.
In ThuaThien Hue, Da Nang and Quang Nam, rainfalls of 300-450 mm and more than 800 mm in some places should be expected.
In October last year, Da Nang experienced historic flooding that inundated the entire city under 1.5 m of floodwater after it received 795 mm of rain overnight following storm Son Ca. The floods killed four people, and caused more than 200,000 households to lose power.
