Quote Originally Posted by david44
Always amazing that people in a swamp in the Tropics where there are numerous floods every decade almost everywhere are surprised.
In the middle of the city there is an official pole with flood level records and the years they occurred.
Over the last 5 floods, each one has got progressively higher, and with a frequency of about every 5 years.
Yet all the new houses being built are not on stilts, but flat on the ground.
Live and learn? Not in Thailand.