Canadian wife and husband caught in Vietnam floods

Canadian News, 1 November 2008

A Canadian couple working temporarily in Vietnam are caught in what they call the worst flooding they've ever seen anywhere. Naomi Sanderson of Toronto says it has been raining heavily in the capital Hanoi for 48 hours, and there's "knee deep water throughout the city." Vietnam's weather forecast centre says 350-millimetres of rain fell Friday, making it the country's heaviest downpour in 24 years. Reports say the rain and floods have killed at least 24 people in the past week. Sanderson says the rain was so heavy at times, it seemed to fall "in circles almost." She says some colleagues of her husband, Mike Godding, went outside Hanoi and found fields under "at least two to three feet of water." Sanderson says many Hanoi businesses and restaurants are closed because of the flooding, although Internet service and power at their hotel have not been affected.