By the end of Thursday, Da Nang’s residents had got back to near normal life after the powerful Storm Nari had swept through the city two days earlier.  As with the traffic and water supply systems, the electricity supply had been restored to all areas of the city, whilst most of the fallen trees and over 2,000 tonnes of rubbish had been tidied up.

The city’s Department of Construction reported that 329 decorative lamp posts had been badly damaged, 1,504 street lamps and lighting poles felled, plus 228 street lamps and over 5km of electricity transmission lines broken.  The total estimated economic loss from the disaster is about 8.3 billion VND.

Students from Duy Tan University tidying up on Phan Boi Chau Street

The storm also caused a total of around 3.6 billion VND in property damage to the city’s Administration Centre, with its broken glass and damaged roofs.  The total damage to the Water Supply Company is estimated at over 2.5 billion VND, and there was about 1.95 billion VND damage to the technical infrastructure in local residential and resettlement areas.

On Thursday, a delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, led by Major General Nguyen Quang Chu, visited some local badly affected families.  The Ministry also gave 400 million VND to help local storm victims.