In response to the complicated developments of the tropical depression, the Chairman of the City People’s Committee has directed and requested departments, committees, sectors, units and commune-level People’s Committees to closely monitor developments, proactively review and implement tropical-depression prevention and response plans according to approved scenarios and plans, and prepare forces and vehicles for rescue and relief when required.
For coastal localities, it is necessary to organise counts and notify owners and captains of vessels operating at sea of the tropical depression’s position, direction of movement and developments so that they can proactively avoid it; maintain communications to promptly handle situations; implement measures to ensure the safety of people at aquaculture cages and watch huts, anchored vessels and coastal facilities; and widely disseminate information so that residents and visitors can proactively respond.
Other localities should proactively implement prevention and response measures appropriate to actual developments and conditions, and prepare drainage plans and protect agricultural production in the event of heavy rain caused by the tropical depression’s circulation./.
City departments, committees and sectors shall, based on their assigned functions and tasks, proactively carry out prevention and response work and guide and direct localities in implementation.
The Department of Agriculture and Environment, the standing advisory body to the city’s Civil Defence Command on disaster prevention and control, is assigned to closely monitor weather developments and proactively advise the City People’s Committee and the city’s Civil Defence Command on directions for timely response.
According to bulletins from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting and the Hai Phong City Hydro-Meteorological Station: At 22:00 on August 18, the centre of the tropical depression was located at approximately 20.2 degrees north latitude and 107.6 degrees east longitude, over the northern area of the Gulf of Tonkin, approximately 110 km south-southeast of the coast of Quang Ninh and Hai Phong provinces. The strongest winds near the centre of the tropical depression were force 6–7 (39–61 km/h), with gusts at force 9; it was moving northwest at approximately 15 km/h. Due to the tropical depression, Bach Long Vi and Quang Ha stations recorded force 6 winds with force 7 gusts, while Co To station recorded force 6 winds with force 8 gusts./.
Source: Hai Phong City Electronic Information Portal