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Latest flood map at Bangkok, its serious.....
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A family of four look at floodwater overflowed from the Chao Phraya river outside their house in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. City dikes overflowed in at least two places as coastal high tides pushed up the main Chao Praya river from the Gulf of Thailand, with water spilling into streets as city workers and troops shored up concrete walls with sandbags.
People visit a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. On one side of Bangkok, you'll find the victims of Thailand's worst flooding in half a century. But just a few miles away, you'll find something else entirely: well-heeled shoppers perusing bustling malls decorated with newly-hung Halloween decorations, couples sipping espresso in the air-conditioned comfort of ultra-chic cafes.
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Was looking at these 2 photos and wife had a glance and asked my if its Venice. When she looked closely she was afraid.
Just called my maid and she sounded pretty uptight.
Just called my maid and she sounded pretty uptight.
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Thai residents line up to recieve donated food along a flooded area at Bangkok's Laksi district, Thailand on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Thailand's prime minister said Monday that she hopes the process of draining floodwater through Bangkok can be sped up now that peak high tides that saw the city's main waterway rise to record levels have passed.
A Thai man rows his inflatable boat as people queue up for food in Bangkok on October 31, 2011. Tensions were rising between Thai residents and authorities in flooded parts of Bangkok on October 31, with hundreds protesting that their homes were being sacrificed in attempts to keep the city centre dry.
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Manit Gongpeng, 52, an agitated Thai flood victim, yells at policemen, unseen, as he and other residents try to force authorities to let some floodwater flow out from their area on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Higher than normal tides pushing up the Chao Phraya River from the Gulf of Thailand in recent days have complicated efforts to drain the floodwater that has been surging through the city as it makes its way from provinces that have been submerged and suffering for up to two months.
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A policeman talks to a journalist at the site where a flood barrier has been destroyed by villagers to let water through, in Klong Sam Wa district outside Bangkok, October 31, 2011
Riot police standby at a site where a flood barrier has been destroyed by villagers to let water through, in Klong Sam Wa district outside Bangkok, October 31, 2011. Nearly 400 people have been killed in months of floods that have disrupted the lives of more than 2 million, economic growth has been set back and global supply chains for Thai-made computer and auto parts thrown into disarray. But in the meantime, anger is rising in hard-hit communities. Tension boiled over into skirmishes with police in some areas as villagers try to pull down flood barriers keeping water high in their communities but protecting the capital.
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These are pictured taken this afternoon at Ramintra/Laksi camp. If army runroad now what about others?
This cam is just opposite my soi.
This cam is just opposite my soi.
Royal Thai Army personnel evacuating from their camp sit atop a tank as they make their way through a flooded street outside their camp in Bangkok October 31, 2011.
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Oh dear !
Looks like my trip to Krung Thep have to postpone
Looks like my trip to Krung Thep have to postpone
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Oh dear !
Looks like my trip to Krung Thep have to postpone
I'm planning to go there next year. Should be after CNY but before Songkran.
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Oh dear !
Looks like my trip to Krung Thep have to postpone
If in December don't cancel it will surely be ok.
Joe's bar will always be open to welcome you. LOL
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published: 1/11/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
Bang Chan Industrial Estate in the eastern Bangkok suburban district is in more danger of flooding after angry protesters forced the government to open wider a sluice gate in Klong Sam Wa to allow more water to flow from their inundated commuunities.
The overflow from northen runoff will threaten the industrial estate located in Min Buri district now that the gate has been opened wider.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told reporters on Monday she had decided to order the city administration to lift the sluice gate at Klong Sam Wa wider to one metre after the protesters' actions.
About 1,000 residents living along Khlong 3 and Khlong 4 rallied at the sluice gate on Sunday night to demand authorities open the gate more, reasoning that the narrow opening had caused serious flooding in their comminities.
After a brief rally during the day, the same group of residents returned to the gate late Sunday night to remove sand bags in the flood wall at the dyke. Some used sledge hammers to try to demolish the gate. They dispersed after local officials agreed to lift the gate to 80 centimetres.
Trouble escalated again yesterday when the residents returned to the gate, blockaded a road near Hathainimit-Wat Sukjai intersection and demanded the gate be opened further to 1.45-1.5 metres.
Some of the protesters formed a human chain and tried to break through block lines of riot police before Wicharn Meechainant, Pheu Thai MP for Min Buri, was called in to mediate the conflict.
The MP failed to convince the protesters to accept to the government's plea to keep the gate as it was.
Deputy Bangkok governor Thirachon Manomaipibul, said Ms Yingluck had ordered the BMA's Department of Drainage and Sewerage to widen the gate to one metre.
Bang Chan Industrial Estate, with more than 200 billion baht worth of investment, is one of the few industrial estates still unaffected by flooding.
Mr Thirachon said he had advised the government that widening the sluice gate would not only affect Bang Chan but also communities along Saen Saeb canal in Saphan Sung, Bang Kapi and Bungkum.
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra shared Mr Thirachon's view. "Without a written order, I will not do it no matter how much the pressure," he said.
Anond Snidwongs, an academic on the water draining committee of the Flood Relief Operations Command (Froc), said the agency was concerned factories and low lying areas in Bang Kapi might be hit.
The government has tried to maintain the water level in Saen Saeb canal near Bang Chan Industrial Estate at no more than one metre above mean sea level, and up to 0.25 metres above mean sea level in the Bang Kapi area.
Froc will have to try to control the water level in those areas by regulating the water flow at Khlong 8 and Khlong 9, so that run off from Khlong Sam Wa does not affect residents along the canal, Mr Anond said.
The Democrat Party yesterday urged the government to invoke a special law to deal with locals who try to disrupt the government's water drainage efforts to protect their own communities.
Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said the party wanted to see the government take two key actions.
First, in areas that are not yet seriously flooded, the government should invoke a special law to manage conflicts between government officers trying to manage floodwater and locals who want to protect their communities from rising flood levels through intimidation.
After the government turned down the opposition's suggestion to invoke the emergency decree, it should instead invoke another law to keep residents from interrupting government flood drainage operations.
Second, in flooded areas, the government should ease the chaos that has ensued while evacuating flood victims.
For example in Bangkok's Bang Plad district, people had to struggle to get out of flooded areas themselves. No government officers were on hand to provide assistance to flood victims. Only soldiers were seen helping flood victims evacuate, said Mr Chavanond.
The government should also take earnest actions to solve the shortage of food, drinking water, public utilities, as well as the problem of inflated commodity prices.
"Right now the government has overlooked people's difficulties. They view it as something less significant than seeking a loan of more than 800-billion-baht to build up a new Thailand even though half of the country is still under water," Mr Chavanond said.
He also criticised the government for stockpiling donated goods at Don Mueang Airport and abandoning them there when floodwater flowed into the ground floor of the airport compound.
Meanwhile, Froc dissolved a committee overseeing flood drainage work chaired by Uthen Chartpinyo, a Pheu Thai MP, saying that the panel's work overlapped with the committee of water management in disaster areas chaired by Veera Wongsaengnak, a former deputy chief of the irrigation department.
A Froc source said the dissolution was in line with a request by executives at three industrial estates in eastern Bangkok _ Lat Krabang, Bang Chan and Suwintawong _ because the Uthane panel wanted to drain floodwater through the areas where the industrial estates are located.
Newspaper section: News
Bang Chan Industrial Estate in the eastern Bangkok suburban district is in more danger of flooding after angry protesters forced the government to open wider a sluice gate in Klong Sam Wa to allow more water to flow from their inundated commuunities.
The overflow from northen runoff will threaten the industrial estate located in Min Buri district now that the gate has been opened wider.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told reporters on Monday she had decided to order the city administration to lift the sluice gate at Klong Sam Wa wider to one metre after the protesters' actions.
About 1,000 residents living along Khlong 3 and Khlong 4 rallied at the sluice gate on Sunday night to demand authorities open the gate more, reasoning that the narrow opening had caused serious flooding in their comminities.
After a brief rally during the day, the same group of residents returned to the gate late Sunday night to remove sand bags in the flood wall at the dyke. Some used sledge hammers to try to demolish the gate. They dispersed after local officials agreed to lift the gate to 80 centimetres.
Trouble escalated again yesterday when the residents returned to the gate, blockaded a road near Hathainimit-Wat Sukjai intersection and demanded the gate be opened further to 1.45-1.5 metres.
Some of the protesters formed a human chain and tried to break through block lines of riot police before Wicharn Meechainant, Pheu Thai MP for Min Buri, was called in to mediate the conflict.
The MP failed to convince the protesters to accept to the government's plea to keep the gate as it was.
Deputy Bangkok governor Thirachon Manomaipibul, said Ms Yingluck had ordered the BMA's Department of Drainage and Sewerage to widen the gate to one metre.
Bang Chan Industrial Estate, with more than 200 billion baht worth of investment, is one of the few industrial estates still unaffected by flooding.
Mr Thirachon said he had advised the government that widening the sluice gate would not only affect Bang Chan but also communities along Saen Saeb canal in Saphan Sung, Bang Kapi and Bungkum.
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra shared Mr Thirachon's view. "Without a written order, I will not do it no matter how much the pressure," he said.
Anond Snidwongs, an academic on the water draining committee of the Flood Relief Operations Command (Froc), said the agency was concerned factories and low lying areas in Bang Kapi might be hit.
The government has tried to maintain the water level in Saen Saeb canal near Bang Chan Industrial Estate at no more than one metre above mean sea level, and up to 0.25 metres above mean sea level in the Bang Kapi area.
Froc will have to try to control the water level in those areas by regulating the water flow at Khlong 8 and Khlong 9, so that run off from Khlong Sam Wa does not affect residents along the canal, Mr Anond said.
The Democrat Party yesterday urged the government to invoke a special law to deal with locals who try to disrupt the government's water drainage efforts to protect their own communities.
Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said the party wanted to see the government take two key actions.
First, in areas that are not yet seriously flooded, the government should invoke a special law to manage conflicts between government officers trying to manage floodwater and locals who want to protect their communities from rising flood levels through intimidation.
After the government turned down the opposition's suggestion to invoke the emergency decree, it should instead invoke another law to keep residents from interrupting government flood drainage operations.
Second, in flooded areas, the government should ease the chaos that has ensued while evacuating flood victims.
For example in Bangkok's Bang Plad district, people had to struggle to get out of flooded areas themselves. No government officers were on hand to provide assistance to flood victims. Only soldiers were seen helping flood victims evacuate, said Mr Chavanond.
The government should also take earnest actions to solve the shortage of food, drinking water, public utilities, as well as the problem of inflated commodity prices.
"Right now the government has overlooked people's difficulties. They view it as something less significant than seeking a loan of more than 800-billion-baht to build up a new Thailand even though half of the country is still under water," Mr Chavanond said.
He also criticised the government for stockpiling donated goods at Don Mueang Airport and abandoning them there when floodwater flowed into the ground floor of the airport compound.
Meanwhile, Froc dissolved a committee overseeing flood drainage work chaired by Uthen Chartpinyo, a Pheu Thai MP, saying that the panel's work overlapped with the committee of water management in disaster areas chaired by Veera Wongsaengnak, a former deputy chief of the irrigation department.
A Froc source said the dissolution was in line with a request by executives at three industrial estates in eastern Bangkok _ Lat Krabang, Bang Chan and Suwintawong _ because the Uthane panel wanted to drain floodwater through the areas where the industrial estates are located.
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A truck carrying rafts drives through floodwaters in Bangkok on November 1, 2011. Japanese automaker Honda will slash production at its North America plants by 50 percent as suppliers in flood-ravaged Thailand are unable to deliver parts.
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