On Le Quy Don Street in the province center, water has receded from homes, leaving roads caked in mud. Residents dragged furniture outside to clean or discarded waterlogged, damaged particleboard items.
On Bac Kan Street, household items made of foam, sponge, and plywood were piled on sidewalks, waiting for sanitation workers to collect.
Plastic waste and billboards float on Luong Ngoc Quyen Street, which remains submerged by about 0.5 meter of water.
Thanh Phuong’s grocery store on Le Quy Don Street has been underwater for two days, with almost all goods damaged. She estimated her losses at hundreds of millions of dong.
To salvage what she could, Phuong mobilized staff to move merchandise outside, wash and sort them before reselling.
Huu Dai’s gas shop on Duong Tu Minh Street was also heavily damaged by the flood.
“My family lives elsewhere. By the time I rushed over, water had already filled half the shop. I only managed to move a few things to the second floor, but 40 gas cylinders in the back were swept away, and gas stoves were ruined after being submerged for two days,” Dai said.
“The water rose too fast. With so few people at home, I couldn’t save belongings on the first floor in time,” said Hung, while cleaning his staircase.
A few hundred meters away, Tram’s family was busy scrubbing mud from their home. As the water had not fully receded, electricity and tap water had not yet been restored.
Residents stocked up on brooms and food supplies as Duong Tu Minh Street remained half a meter under water, with power and water outages ongoing.
A mechanical workshop on the street was deeply flooded, leaving many motorbikes, cars, and machines damaged.
An excavator stalled after being submerged for two days while attempting to cross a flooded section of Duong Tu Minh Street.
A man ran a generator to help students renting rooms on Le Quy Don Street charge their phones while waiting for electricity to return.
