Dozens of apartments were flooded because ... a stick?

This "rare" event happened in Tam Phu Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, causing dozens of were flooded households for almost two days.

In the afternoon January 5, many internal roads and dozens of residents living along the embankments Tam Phu still submerged in water about 30cm, can place deep water to half a wheel makes all people living here were reversed.

According to residents, about 19 pm on January 4, water from the canals, sewer overflows and starts continue to rise, flooding on the low-lying areas. This incident led many families are not able to respond, more furniture is wet.

“When it happened, we advise to ward checking tide sluices in this areas, do not know how they checked but in all night, water still profusely flooding in my house. My family and the people around here have to stay up late to run flood.” Mr Tran Van Dan said

Deep water caused many households to mobilize people to plant flowers, put the flower pots to dry place such as family circumstances Nguyen Thi Anh Thu, planting more than 1,500 original selling sunflowers Tet holidays.

Water submerged cause fish in pond of Ms Thu spill out and no damage statistics. Many households also damaged furniture, machinery and raw materials for production.

According to a regional supervisor tide sluices, the cause of the problem may be due to stuck tide sluices can not close due to physical facilities such as stick, coconut or garbage floating on manhole covers are made part reclosable jam.

After the tide will tell people to check for specific causes.