I posted recently about rainy season with some nice pictures. Last night we had possibly the biggest storm I've seen since being here. Clouds started coming across the city at about 4:30pm and turned the sky black then it proceeded to rain at full intensity for about 2.5 hours. It was so intense that everyone was stranded at school. Below are some pictures and a video of the event.
When the rain did finally let up I left University but the motorbike park had flooded. I took off my shoes and socks, rolled up my trousers and drove home through the water.
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| The University bike park |
The journey home was eventful, it was very busy and many of the roads had flooded. Some people had abandoned their cars and bikes because they'd became waterlogged. Some of the water covered the whole of the tyres on the motorbike.
The rain had turned the roads into streams, below are some more pictures taken by me and some of my friends from around the city.
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| View from my apartment block |
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| Road below my apartment |
It turns out the city was chaos as reported in the local newspaper. The link below the pictures goes to the newspaper which has some amazing video footage of the flood water!
Link to the newspaper article in the Saigoneer
Below are some more pictures I took off Facebook from various friends making their way home.
I really like the last picture of the chap smiling. It says a lot about the people here when stuff like this happens, they just get on and deal with it with a smile on their face.
The next morning all the flood water had gone, the roads were dry and it was hot and sunny. You'd never have known there was a storm like this the night before.
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