Crossy

The garden at low-tide ???? I had to remove the pump from the pool to keep it dry, hence the lovely green colour ????

There is one actually, but it's controlled by a (closed) sluice.

OK, we survived the night, had to move the car out onto the road as the sandbagging was closing off our gateway. Our (non) entrance, we are between the flood defences and the river ???? The less than professional section was where we removed the bags to get the car out, like getting something back into the box you just removed it from putting sandbags back neatly is impossible.

Yeah, sorry. We are on the northern edge of BKK so we expect the imminent arrival of your water ????

Were the platitudes particularly delicious ones? The problem with all the flood mitigation (I won't say "prevention") schemes is that thare's no really integrated plan. The piecemeal implementation of "fix the tall tree areas first" (tall-tree = richest) just moves the flooding to the next vulnerable area. Here in northern BKK it's the worst it's been since 2011 but "this year isn't as bad as last time". Hmmm, I wonder what's caused that?

I just logged on to my BKK Bank account from my PC here in Thailand and got the same screen. Looks like they have updated something in the Terms and Conditions (who ever actually reads these?). You have to put a check in this box. before the Accept button will work. I don't have the App but I assume it will work the same way.

Local high at Pak Kret. An hour to go before it hits us!

2011 all over again! ???? Only worse for some because the "protection" that's been implemented since just funnels the water to the next weak point ????

No worries! If you can't make light of your problems you will end up in a padded cell somewhere!! I have plans in place to handle up to something like the 2011 levels, I just don't want to test them in case I'm wrong!

A quick interpretation:-

Are we looking at the same level of water (mis) management that we saw in 2011?? Down here in the south we really can't cope with any more flow without serious issues ????

Things are definitely afoot ...

Mel Brookes' "Young Frankenstein" with Marty Feldman as Igor is excellent too ????

But do not use it to replace hair-gel ...

It's actually a line from one of the many "Frankenstein" movies (probably a Hammer production) when the Baron's monster is brought to life!! ???? Igor is the baron's faithful assistant.

Fetching my coat!

Holding pretty steady at Pak Kret so I reckon we are OK, for now ...

Local high at Pak Kret. Doesn't look too bad, but will be monitoring carefully after Puyai Baan's announcement which I suspect was about this:-

I think this is what our Puyai Baan was on about over the speakers this afternoon, it's certainly spurred some action around the village here in northern BKK.

Indeed, but a fair chunk of it will be heading towards BKK where we are already battling rising river levels ????

We'll be fine thanks. But I think more permanent defences will be on the cards next spring. Possibly an earth berm around the house with a sump for the pump.

The wall is more like a colander below the concrete beam, it's concrete planks but they've shifted over the years ????

According to Madam, puyai-baan has been on the speakers informing us that more water has been released upstream. This is definitely not good ???? And sandbag activity on the road, unfortunately we are on the wrong side of the bags ????

Sadly no, there's no mechanism in place to pay the duty on over-limit alcohol or tobacco. You could risk it in the green channel but the penalties for getting caught smuggling are actually quite punitive ???? Could be a reason to give up (I'll say it before anyone else does).