Vinh City: Thousands of trees trimmed before storm
(Baonghean.vn) - By the end of August 9, Vinh City had trimmed 2,902 trees, mainly old trees, trimmed and lowered in height to proactively prevent storms this year.
On siteVinh CityThere are currently over 50,000 trees of all kinds planted along the roads, so the city has directed the pruning of trees and reduction of foliage to prevent them from falling before the storm season.
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Workers trim trees in Vinh City. Photo: Quang An |
Currently, workers of Vinh City Green Park Joint Stock Company are focusing on checking, reviewing and pruning trees on the streets, focusing on major streets with many old trees such as Truong Thi, Ha Huy Tap, Nguyen Sy Sach, Le Hong Phong, Le Mao...
According to statistics, by the end of August 9, Vinh City had directed the pruning of 2,902/3,478 trees of all kinds on 50 streets, mainly cutting down large, luxuriant branches to prevent them from falling during heavy rains and strong winds. Trees over 20 meters high will be lowered. The remaining trees will be urgently completed in the coming days.
Pruning trees before the storm season is very necessary. Previously, on the evening of August 8, heavy rain and wind caused a tree on Le Mao Street to fall, damaging a car parked on the side of the road. In July, a tree at Nguyen Tat Thanh Park, Truong Thi Ward, was uprooted and fell on an old man, killing him. During the storm season, uprooted and broken trees often occur in the city.
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Fallen trees are common during the storm season in Vinh City. Photo: Quang An |
According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, at 10:00 a.m. this morning (August 10), storm No. 2 Mulan was in the northeastern area of Hainan Island (China), about 350km east-northeast of Bach Long Vi Island. The strongest wind near the storm's center increased to level 9 (62-88km/h), gusting to level 11. The radius of strong winds of level 6, gusting to level 8 is about 130km from the storm's center.
From this evening (August 10) to around August 12, the Northern region, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An will have moderate rain, heavy rain and thunderstorms, some places will have very heavy rain with common rainfall of 100-200mm/period, some places over 250mm/period.