So Typhoon Damrey landed in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam yesterday, after killing 9 people in sparsely populated Hainan, China. It tore roofs off houses, destroyed the levees that held the South China Sea out of three "communes" (counties, roughly), knocked out the power grid in Thanh Hoa City, and generally busted stuff up. The death toll? Zero, apparently. The Vietnamese Army arrived on Saturday and evacuated about 150,000 people ahead of the storm.
Oh - and the US continues to tell Vietnam it should emulate our model social and governmental institutions.