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Typhoon Linda - Nov 1997

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On 1 November 1997, a tropical low pressure storm in the South China Sea near Kalimantan escalated into Typhoon Linda. During the night of 2 November, the centre of Typhoon Linda hit the southern tip of Viet Nam (the area from Bac Lieu Province to Ca Mau Province) with wind velocities of 75 to 102 km/h (Beaufort Scale 9 to 10). On 3 November 1997, Typhoon Linda moved to the West and Northwest, away from Viet Nam, impacting also Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. The UNDP-sponsored Disaster Management Unit in Viet Nam, Department of Dyke Management and Flood and Storm Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, provided the following preliminary information on the impact of the typhoon in 11 provinces as of 4 November 1997: 86 people reported killed, 153 injured, and 2,591 missing, 1,380 boats reported sunk and 1,615 missing, 5,939 houses destroyed and 127,291 damaged, 453,509 hectares of rice paddy inundated. According to information currently available, Ca Mau Province is worst affected with 27 deaths, 2,130 people missing, 115 injured, 117,241 houses damaged and 265,000 hectares of rice paddy inundated. Further assessments on the impact of the typhoon are ongoing and relief activities are under way. (UN DHA, 5 Nov 1997)

The Government of Vietnam has officially issued a request for international assistance in the wake of Typhoon Linda, which hit a dozen provinces in the South of Vietnam during the night of 2 November. [...] Typhoon Linda, which was the strongest typhoon ever recorded in the southernmost areas of Vietnam during the last 100 years, caused huge losses. According to preliminary statistics, more than 300 people were killed, 700 others injured and over 2,000 are still missing. Damage to infrastructure, crops, rice paddy, fishing boats and trawlers, houses, schools, etc. amounts to approximately 2,300 billion dongs (about USD 200 million). [...] Typhoon Linda affected all provinces in the Southwest of Vietnam. For two days, from 2 to 3 November, there were strong rains throughout the South of Vietnam. In some places, there was as much as 100 to 150 mm of rainfall. [...] As of 7 November 1997, information on damage caused by the typhoon was as follows: 304 people killed, 708 injured and 1,937 missing, 3,513 people rescued, 2,326 boats sunk, 64,516 houses collapsed and 110,869 damaged, 1,126 schoolrooms destroyed and 3,123 damaged, 225,990 ha of rice fields damaged and inundated, 130,815 dykes breached. (UN DHA, 8 Nov 1997)

As of 13 November 1997, information on damage caused by the typhoon was as follows: 464 people killed, 857 people injured and 3,218 missing (or unaccounted for), 3,122 boats sunk and 774 boats missing, 76,609 houses destroyed and 139,445 houses damaged, 2,254 school rooms destroyed and 4,022 school rooms damaged, 349,232 rice paddies inundated. (UN DHA, 14 Nov 1997)

The focus of the relief operation in the wake of Typhoon Linda has been switched to rehabilitation and reconstruction. [...] In early December, as people started to rebuild their homes using whatever material they could find, it became clear that the overall health status of the population and its access to food was less of a concern than earlier anticipated, but reconstruction needs were enormous. (IFRC, 26 Jan 1998)