50,000 evacuate homes in Myanmar after dam breach

[Flashermac]

YANGON: More than 50,000 people evacuated their homes in central Myanmar on Wednesday after a dam breach flooded towns and villages and caused the closure of a major highway, two officials said.

Fire authorities sent a team to the Swar irrigation dam after the breach at 5.30am unleashed water into the nearby town of Swar and several other settlements.

Many people, including some not directly hit by flooding, had decided to leave their homes for fear the water level could rise further, said an official of the Natural Disaster Management Department who asked not to be identified, in the absence of authorisation to speak to media.

In all, 12,000 households or a total of 54,000 people had been displaced, said another official, from the Department of Relief and Resettlement, who also declined to be named.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/1530558/more-than-50-000-evacuate-homes-in-myanmar-after-dam-breach-officials-say

Now it's Burma's turn. It may not be global warming, but we're getting a helluva lot more storms and rain than we used to!

 

 

 

 

[Mekong]

20 minutes ago, Flashermac said:

Try try living on the North East Coast of Vietnam we get hammered big time a Class One Typoon here is only a Tropical Storm by the time it reaches Myanmar 

They usually swing South of Hainan Island then turn North towards Hai Phong / Thai Binh / Nam Dinh, it hasn’t stopped raining here for the past 5 weeks. In fact so bad EVN (Electric Vietnam) have shut down Coal Fired Power Plants because enough Hydro Power 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flashermac]

Since the PRC claims almost all of the oceans, maybe a class action suit should be brought against China for their storms.

[Mekong]

Well the "South China Sea" is known as Bien Dong (East Sea) in Vietnam

Heaven forbid me if I use South China Sea instead of Bien Dong in any correspondence, which have done in the past hehe.

[Flashermac]

Why isn't it the North Philippines Sea?

The PRC's claim is because a Chinese admiral sailed through the sea centuries ago. I guess the whole Caribbean must belong to Spain then, thanks to Columbus. Eastern Canada must belong to the Norwegians.

[radioman]

As long as you don't use terms like RVN you should be okay 😀

[Flashermac]

Or mention this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Huế