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Including the weekend market or not?

I am suppose to pick up some items this weekend there.

Weekend Chatuchak Shopping list:

1) Green Mamba Anti-venom

2) Crocodile Net, Heavy Duty

3) Chest-high Wading Boots

4) Portable Toilet

5) Water Purification Equipment

6) 10 Cu Mtr/sec Water Pump (diesel)

7) Flotation Device for Automobile

8) Jet Ski

9) Wind-up Emergency TV

10) Scuba Outfit

11) Boat Big Enough for All of the Above (except the Jet Ski)

Re item 6). Perhaps you could check whether the pumps thaksin ordered from Korea have arrived, maybe there now on sale at Jatujuk?

Anyone ever told you that you're a really funny guy? No? I wonder why.

Easy son. Anyone ever tell YOU that you were intelligent? Rest my case

Most farangs I know head out to Phuket, Krabi, Chiangmai , or Pattaya when landing at the airport. Bangkok is not on their first stop...so it does need to be stressed that the other tourist areas are fine and not under water

In my opinion it does not need to be stressed - The Internet is World-Wide remember - If you don't know any details about the country you're traveling to, maybe you shouldn't go on holiday. It's not hard to know that Phuket is 800+ k's away if you do a google search.

"Meanwhile, Areepong said he believed the government could manage things, as everyone knows where the water comes from and where it will go. It is predictable, unlike tsunamis or earthquakes", he said.

I wonder if Areepong would consider informing FROC of what "everyone knows". The only thing that is predictable is the government trying to save face and their minions making stupid statements like this!

Hear hear! So "predictable" that PM has always blamed "unpredicable" factors - "less water than expected", "more water than expected", "Bangkok safe", "Bangkok not safe". I think we all have the right idea: Stop reading the news and wait for flood information from friends, colleagues and our own eyes.

"Tourism Image" is not really being affected, it is more "Short term Tourism Prospects". The "Tourism Image" of this country has been declining for a while now. very few people return for 2nd or 3rd holidays as most are put off by the treatment they receive. The "Tourism Image" needs to be addressed from a young age - students need to be taught respect for other nations and instructed on how to treat foreigners in general. I remember that we used to receive "culture classes" at school that taught us how to respect other nations. God help me if I ever said, "Hello Chinky" or "Look there's a Chinaman" to a Thai tourist that visited - my mother would have slapped me.

For everyone reading this topic.

I'm here in Lad Prao...Ladprakhao Road soi 42.

We've been dry here for at least a week while others were flooded not that far away.

About an hour ago we had our first water slowly seeping out of the drains in this area.

Now that seems to have stopped and what water there was on the roads seems to be drying up.

I'm still worried about high tide times today and tyommorow however.

It looks like today and tomorrow may be the crunch times however.

Last word I heard from my Thai family was maybe 30cm in this soi.

Our soi is probably 20cm higher than other areas nearby...so just do the math.

Not trying to panic anyone...just stating the facts as I see them now.

My recommendation for anyons in Lad Prao area is to at very least have bags packed and be ready to keave on a moments notice.

In fact, if you can, lock up your house, and go somewhere else now.

P.S. Also a definite smell of stagnant water coming from the drains right now.

Time: noon 12:00 on 12 November 2011

I've been following this for Chao Praya levels. It's updated every 5min or so. Todays not too bad. Currently 2.29

Lad Prao 41 has started to flood

opps....touched a raw nerve there lad. Having watched TV years, with people bitching about "Thai women"..... i would say 95 in 100 starts with " i met this girl in a bar".

I bet a large majority of falangs have never met as or dated a non-bar "Thai women".

I have, she worked in Real Estate and now works for Khirin Travel. Not all Thai woman are bar girls.

Exactly Sibbo - My girlfriend has a Masters and is a corporate exec. - earns more money than I do. These sad sacks just jealous: They've been here too long and have never found reality - they never found it back home....

What about a hotline in Thailand from respective embassies for 'abused farang'?

"Abused farang"!?! Are you serious...How about "Hotline for a farang, who not being able to find a western woman who would put up with his lacking as a human being and therefore came to the land of smiles to seek fulfillment funded by his brick-laying (at a good exchange rate probably "lawyer") income and, due to finding that woman (a bar girl!!), get's screwed.

Oh sorry...that must be you...

Any news on Chatuchak area?

How about those "smarties knowing everything" here in the farang community coming up with a proper drainage and emergency plan, so far I have mostly read heaps of BS of blown up egos!

Agree.

So according to you football fans on the terraces should remain stoically silent? They should suffer in without comment when one of their players habitually gives the ball away to an opponent? Are you saying that critics of the Arts should not comment just because they do not possess the talent to write something to compete with any of Shakespeare's great works, compose anything to compare to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, paint something more mystical than da Vinci's La Gioconda?

People are angry and rightly so. The response to a natural disaster has itself been a disaster. Maybe you are more Thai than the Thais but none of my Thai friends and associates are at this moment muttering mai pen rai. Nobody has yet to disagree with me that there has been a total lack of contingency planning going back several years. You might care to consider that progress is brought about by those who are not satisfied - and complain long and loud until improvements are made. The clever ones keep on complaining because things usually could be even more improved.

Posters here do not form any part of Government. What passes for the past Thai Governments should have met their responsibility to draw up and implement a suitable and effective drainage system and to draw up contingency plans. This incompetent shower have by virtue of their calumny have exacerbated the effects of this disaster. The posters have every right and a just cause to complain and bitch long and loud. I hope that they have the good sense to relay and explain to their Thai friends and neighbours why the effects of an untoward situation have been so severe. In the end, only the Thai people can bring about change.

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What do you expect from an underling with a name such as Perverted Dave ?

Onanism ?

Don't think he's got the tools functioning properly for that

The standard of eloquence from some of our more recent members is indeed amazing

The use of profanity normally indicates a lack of both the understanding of a situation and the dubious benefits of a poor education system.

What do you expect from an underling with a name such as Perverted Dave ?

"Sometimes water just disappears, but then it can also reappear. I'm not trying to be provocative, but only fortune-tellers can know for certain. Will the water reach central Bangkok? I don't know."

In other words: "I am 100% certain, that I am not certain, whether there will or will not be a flood covering all or nothing at all of Bangkok and if the flood does come, I am certain that BKK is flooded and if the flood doesn't come am certain about that also. "

Any news on Rama 8 rd and bridge?

Sure it s not natural enymore and wasnt. The dams were closed for the next dry season and they didn t except so much water. So they opened the gates...

Does anyone know why the were saving water for the next dry season, before the wet season had even started properly?

Because last year the dry season was really dry and water was mising....and people complained about the lack of water...but maybe the news didn t speak too much about this as it was mainly in Isaan

Thank you - finally someone with a straight, no BS answer.

Sure it s not natural enymore and wasnt. The dams were closed for the next dry season and they didn t except so much water. So they opened the gates...

Does anyone know why the were saving water for the next dry season, before the wet season had even started properly?

Maybe they should ask Holland or the UK for drainage advice, Holland and the UK has been managing water levels for years. Lincolnshire in the UK is only about 6 inches above sea level and in Holland some are actually below sea level.

In Holland over 25% is below sea-level, not some. But I agree, they're the kings of water management - have you seen the massive storm protection gate for Rotterdam? Amazing!!

Is panic a mood? Thought it must be a misprint, should have read "Panic Mode"

In Thailand it is a mood, just like "honesty" , "trust" and a list of others...

I dont need people who dont know anything about flooding telling me I am a cold hearted Falang

Frankly speaking, you do NOT have her....at your homecountry, a cold hearted Falang. She's NOT your leader.

Great - if she's not our leader, then the laws of this country aren't ours to follow either. Correct Alex?

She is NOT a leader at all...Period

Touche

I dont need people who dont know anything about flooding telling me I am a cold hearted Falang

Frankly speaking, you do NOT have her....at your homecountry, a cold hearted Falang. She's NOT your leader.

Great - if she's not our leader, then the laws of this country aren't ours to follow either. Correct Alex?

With Don Muang airport remaining closed, refugees will now be accommodated at Suvarnabhumi airport.

Surely this is a mis-print or a mis-quote ?

Not misprint - the "other" newspaper has an article on it

We've just decided to make a run for it (thanks company for releasing us) Need to get from Bang Sue/Prachachuen to Sai Tai. Any news or advice on getting there? Thanks

Really tired of people(my wife included) "feeling sorry" for this woman. YES she is out of her depth and yES she has a difficult task of being the "face" and only the "face" of the party, but please do not forget that she CHOSE to run. Nobody can force you to be prime minister - she knew exactly what her role would be when PTP approached her.