Automobiles broken by final week’s heavy rains are parked outdoors Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi, on Sunday afternoon to obtain insurance coverage advantages. The Common Insurance coverage Affiliation of Korea introduced that at the very least 9,189 vehicles have been reported to 12 property insurance coverage corporations for damages anticipated to be value about 127.37 billion received ($97.8 million). [NEWS1]
Heavy rain will as soon as once more sweep throughout the nation early this week, although doubtless not as severely as final week.
Korea’s climate authority on Sunday predicted that rain clouds will kind above Gangwon and jap Gyeonggi early Monday morning and rapidly transfer southward all through Wednesday morning.
Seoul is anticipated to see rains of at the very least 50 millimeters (2 inches) per hour from late Monday afternoon to early Tuesday, markedly lower than final week’s hourly precipitation of over 140 millimeters, mentioned the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA).
The southern a part of mainland Korea can be affected Tuesday morning, whereas Jeju Island is anticipated to see heavy rain the next day.
The important thing distinction between this week’s downpour and final week’s, the KMA mentioned, is that the upcoming rain entrance received’t hover above a specific space for an prolonged time frame like final week, which brought on casualties and vital property injury within the better Seoul area.
Quite, this week’s rain entrance is predicted to swiftly transfer alongside its route.
Even so, climate officers urged the general public to not let their guard down, saying that extra property injury and landslides could also be brought on by already weakened soil from final week’s flooding.
Gangnam District in southern Seoul and Yangpyeong in Gyeonggi had been probably the most severely hit areas final week, with collected precipitations reaching over 500 and 600 millimeters, respectively.
The estimated collected precipitation for this week is between 50 and 100 millimeters for Seoul; above 150 millimeters for jap Gyeonggi, North Chungcheong, South Chungcheong, North Jeolla and western North Gyeongsang; and 10 to 60 millimeters for jap Gangwon and the East Coastline of North and South Gyeongsang.
As of Sunday morning, the Central Catastrophe and Security Countermeasures Headquarters mentioned that 14 folks died and 6 stay lacking from final week’s report rainstorm.
Among the many deaths, eight had been tallied in Seoul, 4 within the surrounding province of Gyeonggi and two within the northeastern province of Gangwon.
Of the six lacking, two had been counted every in Gyeonggi, Gangwon, and South Chungcheong.
The most recent casualties had been reported from Buyeo County, South Chungcheong, at round 1:44 a.m. on Sunday when a freight truck was washed away in a flood, leaving the 55-year-old driver and one other individual lacking.
Solely the truck has been discovered up to now.
Some 2,000 others from 1,100 houses, principally in Seoul and Gyeonggi, are presently residing in makeshift shelters organized by native governments after their houses had been submerged.
About 5,600 others from 2,600 households had been briefly evacuated after they misplaced electrical energy or components of their partitions collapsed.
The Seoul Metropolitan Authorities introduced plans to ascertain extra makeshift shelters for Covid-19 sufferers after eight evacuees lately got here down with the coronavirus.
Roughly 6,200 residential and industrial buildings throughout the nation have reported damages, about 5,700 of that are in Seoul alone.
Practically 1,085 hectares of farmlands had been flooded, principally in South Chungcheong and Gangwon. About 87,000 livestock animals died.
BY LEE SUNG-EUN,CHON KWON-PIL [[email protected]]
