📸 Hanoi, 2 days after Typhoon Yagi (Fuji Recipe EP5: Superia Loco)

Photos in this post were shot with Justin Gould’s Superia Loco recipe.

Hello friends,

I have a few episodes planned in mind, but I just have to bump this up first because I want to share this story.

And… yeah. It’s not a fun one.

Some of you might know, Typhoon Yagi hit the North of Vietnam 3 days ago. It was the strongest typhoon in over a decade. And it’s definitely the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Something out of an apocalyptic horror movie.

We had a history of mother nature wrecking havoc on our coastal cities. But I was younger, and I live in the high and mighty castle called Hanoi, so I never really cared.

This was definitely something else though. The usual storms and typhoon I heard on the news are usually level 10, maybe 12-13 at most (intensity wise). Yagi was at level 18. It hit Hanoi at level 15-16, which is crazy to me.

And, well, it killed dozens and a lot more were hurt. Trees were ripped from the ground and fell on people on the road. Badly constructed houses are ripped apart. Things flew all over the place (including things like metal roofs which are extremely dangerous). Anything “weak” like thin glass doors were destroyed on the spot. At one point when the Typhoon is at its peak, I could feel the glass windows and doors in my apartment (which were quite sturdy) shaking and vibrating, and they could still be torn apart at any moment.

I definitely had it good though. I was fortunate enough to be able to stay at home, and all I had to worry about is my apartment and my silly car, and both of those were fine. A lot of people weren’t that lucky.

3 days later, and the nightmare is not yet over though.

The aftermath is just as problematic. Water levels in the all the rivers rose so high, that it started flooding many cities. The whole city of Thai Nguyen, afaik, are in ruins at the moment, with floods as high as a full story building, and there are a lot more cities like that. Hanoi is next, with flood started rising at least 2-30cms deep in many places.

And I don’t know what I’m writing this for. I just wanted to share, I guess.

I’m definitely a lot more fortunate than some of my fellow countrymen. My life were for the most part, unchanged. I hope that more people know about this and it brings more help to the people who truly needs it.

So… yeah. Here’s some photos I took, 2 days after the Typhoon hit.

Oh and you’re not gonna find anything actually good here. I’m definitely not brave enough to be a “journalist” or a “documentary photographer”. Those people actually risk their life to bringing in photos that matter here.

I’m a big puss who shoot photos just because I like the art, so I waited until it’s completely safe to shoot some photos of still things. If you want to see photos of what’s actually happening though, after the images are links to some “highlights” of what I saw in the last few days.

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So… yeah. I’ll stop rambling now. Apologize for the lack of photography talk on this one.

Until next time.

Peter.