Warning for a lot of rain and flooding in the coming days!
The residents of Bangkok must expect a traffic chaos due to the continuous rain in the coming days.
Roads will flood because the sewers and canals are unable to drain the rainwater.
According to the newspaper 'The Nation', the current rainfall in Bangkok is breaking all records. There hasn't been that much rain in a month for the past fifty years. The bad weather will continue until Monday, according to the Thai Meteorological Service. Bangkok and neighboring provinces will experience more rain, storms and violent thunderstorms.
Weather warning for large parts of Thailand
Not only Bangkok will be affected, the weather warning also applies to the Central part, lower parts in the northeast, east and south of Thailand. Residents near rivers and canals should prepare for the heavy rain and possible flash floods. The devastating mudslides are especially dangerous. Wibul Sanguanpong, director general of the Meteorological Department, advises people living in high-risk areas to follow the news and keep an eye on the daily weather forecast.
Shipping should also proceed with caution from today until the end of this month, he added. Due to the strong wind, shipping in the Andaman Sea and the upper part of the Gulf of Thailand has to deal with waves of two meters high. Small boats would be wise not to go out to sea in the coming days.
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It's a bit of a shame for Yingluck, but her promises don't come true.
No increase in food prices
I don't work for my brother
My brother doesn't tell me what to do
I will do my best and keep the election promises
And then the last (for now)
There will be no flooding in Thailand in 2012!
I wonder how the PM and the rest of her government can put a nice spin on this again so that it is definitely someone or something else's fault again.
How long could she and the rest of the government keep this up? Do you think the Thai will continue to accept all this?
The Thai will continue to accept it, although the clique that opposes it is getting bigger and bigger, but the business community should not accept anything at all!
It is also very likely that large car brands will disappear to Vietnam in the future to assemble cars.
How is that possible?
Surely some minister has promised, sworn no, that in 2012 there will be none
floods would be?
Or is this perhaps one of the wonderful pieces of advice from the Chinese techies who have been asked by the government to advise?
Along the lines of: “do nothing, just let it flood, only happens once every 8-10 years”.
Finally, taking measures to prevent flooding means that all riverbanks must be undeveloped means that a lot of income will stop flowing in. the loss we have due to the floods is still compensated by the 8-10 years of profit.
And the people?
oh well, not important, the government makes a fund, and everyone is happy again.
+Free to James Michener's Hawaii…..
I sometimes wonder what this government can do about it raining so exceptionally hard,
The sewage system has let me rot for years, and now suddenly this government is to blame
don't worry the ellite's villas won't flood, how could that be.
I'm not saying it's only the fault of this government, it's true that this problem has been there for years. What I am saying is that this government was elected by people based on hard promises (and some extra hand money here and there) 1 of those promises was: There will be no floods in Thailand in 2012!
And as far as the so-called elite are concerned, the leaders of the reds themselves are just as much part of it and do you really think they care about the other (poor) people? It was simply the largest group of people who were the easiest to influence and manipulate to win the election.
The big problem (in my opinion) is that as long as the brother continues to interfere with the country, no structural (necessary) changes will take place and that is exactly what the country needs.
Well, if several soi's around Sukhumvit are already flooded after a heavy rain shower, then these predictions are very inopportune. Here in Bangkok, unrest prevails among the residents, they fear a lot of misery again.
Seen on TV in recent days why sewage in BKK can handle little rain. After the construction of the sewer system, people forgot to flush and clean the system regularly (this is also called maintenance). There are special vehicles for this, but here it is done by hand in the week of the (again) heaviest rainfall. And when you see what comes out...... Then it's no wonder that sewerage can't handle anything (anymore).
The board of BKK (Abhisit cs) would do better to look into their own bosom instead of accusing the government (Yingluk cs) of doing too little in the area north of BKK. In the period that Abhisit formed the government, he also did nothing to structure it. But yes, structural and anticipatory thinking is not in fashion here.
People are far too busy with board games such as “black shots”, “monopoly” and “bullying”.
In fact, I heard her say during the previous major floods that she would resign if there were floods again this year!
I think she has long forgotten those words hahahaha
It is clear that there must be an expert plan with regard to water management, it is less clear whether there is one at all, and even less clear whether and, if so, when it will be implemented. (According to some, there is already a work in progress, but that work is not yet advanced enough; how could that be, this is a work of great magnitude).
What does all this have to do with the red-yellow battle? Just that red blames yellow, and yellow blames red. And whose fault exactly? That no one can predict the weather; in particular, it is unpredictable in which years there is more rainfall in the rainy season than average. However, I think there is a good chance that - due to global circumstances - the irregularities in the weather will increase.
The PM took a risk: based on the wish - which became the father of her thoughts - that everything would be better this year, she "guaranteed" that there would be no major floods this year. But that was the request of the weather gods.
What now? Well, don't throw oil on the red-yellow fire. First of all, it must be ensured that the plan according to people is a good plan. Perhaps that plan is already there, with a feasible timetable, otherwise it must be done urgently. In this world, I estimate - and I think I can estimate every Dutchman - there is more than enough knowledge in the field of water management.
Furthermore - I already mentioned the timetable - don't tell the people that this problem will be (virtually) solved next year.
Well said! This is the first sensible response I've read regarding flooding and the government's role and ability to do something about it.
As long as Thailand has existed there have been floods somewhere. A good plan is,
make a sliding roof above this country after the example of the Amsterdam Arena (Ajax)
When it rains, you close the roof (just kidding). Nobody, absolutely nobody, can solve the floods. Not even Dutch water experts.
Of course the reactions are negative. Yingluck, who failed conspicuously last year, exclaims overconfidently that there will be no repeat in 2012. Well, she can't live up to that. She can manipulate the people well, but not the weather.
It is clear that this problem cannot be solved in the short term. But don't give any guarantees. The government is so opportunistic, this is an example of that. The problem cannot be solved in a year, but they have had enough time to broadly present a plan to the population for the future. That had shown vision and had created confidence among the population. But no, the government has been busy with other things and now that the problem is repeating itself, they suddenly wake up again… to fall into a deep hibernation again after the rainy season. After all, they themselves live high and dry.
Negative? Yes! But the government does not give any cause for optimism.
Rainfall in Bangkok breaks all records, according to the Nation newspaper. The past fifty
year there has not been so much rain in a month.
On July 29 of this year, the small river ”'De Gulp”” came out due to rainfall in the Netherlands
its banks, with the result that the towns of Slenaken and Gulpen experienced a lot of flooding.
Cars end up off the road and end up in ditches. had two days ago
we had the first autumn storm according to the NOS-Journaal in the Netherlands, and again stood in
Limburg some streets with 20 to 30 cm white.
Thailand is 2000 kilometers long, measured from the extreme north to the extreme south
Thailand has, I don't know how many rivers with miles of tributaries. In short one
real water land.
If in the Netherlands the small river ””De Gulp”' cannot even be conquered, then
I still wonder what those Water Experts here would do with the fast-flowing rivers in Thailand.
Some parts of Bkk are already under water. The water was high as the curb so it's exciting again at the moment.