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    Rainy season eh. Take Care everyone that are getting floods.
    Looks like a lot of water. Isn't Sept/Oct the worst months for rain?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Also the year they closed off all the drains to the river. To "Save the financial district". The water side communities were dry that should naturally be flooded. The water came down the freaking highway (Wipawidee Rangsit). Flooded all the industrial estates on the way.
    The new governor has the inkling of a good idea, but no doubt it will disappear in a swirl of fiscal arguments.

    The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is proposing the construction of a flood drainage system that could offer a solid solution to the water drainage problem in the capital city.

    Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt discussed the idea with Interior Minister Gen Anupong Paojinda as they inspected flood-affected areas in Lat Krabang district on Wednesday (Sept 14).

    Chadchart said the new drainage system could be the long-term solution to preventing severe floods in the capital.

    According to the Bangkok governor, the proposed system will drain run-off from the Prawet Buri Rom canal in eastern Bangkok into the Bang Pakong River in Chachoengsao province and finally into the Gulf of Thailand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe View Post
    Isn't Sept/Oct the worst months for rain?
    September is. October is usually lower - sometimes a lot lower.

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    These are the evacuees, I'm standing in my lawn. These same people lost everything 3 years ago. It always hits the poor people the hardest because they live on the flood plain. Three years ago many of their homes were just corrugated shacks that washed away in the flood. They got government money and built back better. At least this time they maybe go home to a brick and mortar shell. Another strange thing, three years ago trucks were lined up giving them free food, they had so much free food they were stockpiling. This time almost nothing. The gf said because of two years of covid, there is very little money left to give them food.

    Flooding everywhere today-dscf1769-jpg

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    Finally had some weather where I could do a drone fly over. The river is down about 1.5 meters.



    Old Muddy. You can see the black on the left cement levy near the bridge how high the water got. The right side flooded in many places.



    Looking North



    Nice weather today. Slight breeze out of the east. We need a week to dry this all up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post
    Nice weather today. Slight breeze out of the east. We need a week to dry this all up.
    It stopped raining here this morning. Our sky is less blue than yours and the forecast is for more rain every day this week. We might have to wait a while here for that dry week.

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    Thakhonyang in Mahasarakham. Chi River very full.

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    There's water touching one of the outside walls of our private village, probably needs about 1 meter for it to come up through the drains etc and start flooding the roads and lower lying houses.

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    Thats what happened here, very strange to see. Before the Mun river overflowed, the villages along the river were already flooded from their drains.

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    you can see why the Thais insist on blocking them with plastic waste, nasty drains

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    There was a bit of sunshine this morning, great chance to catch up on the laundry, it turned out not to be enough sun to dry the towels. Dark skies and distant thunder again now. The rain has just started and who knows when it will stop?

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    Hot and sunny here all day.

    People talk of big run offs coming down from Chiang Dao and Mae Taeng.


    People hopefully be wrong.

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    Apparently the Mae Ngat dam started releasing water at 3pm and they warned it's expected to hit Chiang Mai around 6pm.

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    Well one minute I was changing the oil in my lawnmower, next minute I am running for cover.



    This all happened in about 5 minutes.



    Went from sunny to I almost need a damn flashlight at 3:50 in the afternoon.

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    Well time to pull up a "Stump" as they say. Not much else one can do.......



    But watch it pour from my upstairs Sala area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post
    Well one minute I was changing the oil in my lawnmower, next minute I am running for cover.



    This all happened in about 5 minutes.



    Went from sunny to I almost need a damn flashlight at 3:50 in the afternoon.
    Same in BKK. Been sunshine all day. Wife put the washing out and my shoes out to dry. Heavens opened at 3pm as I was leaving work. They were drenched again by the time I got home.

    Not sure how much longer I can get away with wearing trainers at work...
    I'd like to see what morning looks like
    Don't wanna drink pint after pint
    I wanna wake up without feeling sick
    But I can't cuz I'm a drug-abusing alcoholic

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    HAHAHA.

    Gotta hand it to those Kerry drivers. Rain, flooding, wind, they deliver.



    I didn't even have to go in the rain. They brought me my new Supcase Watch band. My Galaxy Watch 3 has taken a beating, Bezel trashed and doesn't turn freely anymore, gorilla glass stained and scratched so I ordered a Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and this time have a case to protect it. Well hopefully. I am hard on watches which is why I stopped wearing one but I like all the heath tracking features plus music etc. Like Smartphones, they aren't a watch anymore. I seldom ever look what time it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post
    But watch it pour from my upstairs Sala area.
    at least you got the lawn done

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Not sure how much longer I can get away with wearing trainers at work...
    Wouldn't you keep a spare pair of work shoes in your office everyday, then put on the trainers when going home?

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    at least you got the lawn done
    Yes Thank God. The front 9 are under water....again..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    Wouldn't you keep a spare pair of work shoes in your office everyday, then put on the trainers when going home?
    Do I look like I'm made of money?

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Do I look like I'm made of money?
    Aren't you in bangna area? Isn't it a flood central there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post
    Went from sunny to I almost need a damn flashlight at 3:50 in the afternoon.
    Looks like it might be hitting us in a couple of minutes.

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    The sky burst open here in Mae Jo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Do I look like I'm made of money?
    One spare pair of shoes, for work?

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