There have been media reports of Vietnam
having started to evacuate people from the path of Super Typhoon
Haiyan after the storm tore across the Philippines.
Haiyan is expected to make
landfall in central Vietnam early Sunday and mass evacuations have begun in
central Danang and Quang Ngai provinces as Vietnam goes on high alert. Many
schools in the affected area have closed and people from vulnerable low-lying
coastal villages are moving to temporary typhoon shelters set up in public
buildings on high ground.
Danang and Quang Ngai are 800 to 900 km to the north of HCMC and along the eastern
coast -
While there has been some heavy rain and
ankle-deep flooding of some minor country roads, we have not been adversely
affected and only had to swop Day 2 with Day 3 programmes. 9 Nov 2013, for example, was
bright, hot and sunny in the Cu Chi and HCMC areas.
Even if Haiyan were to hit central Vietnam on or around Sunday, HCMC would
probably not be badly affected, if at all.
