chiangmaicharlies

Errr ok...... I somehow have this mental image of you typing away on your computer, with your feet in water that is gently lapping near the electrical outlets. Sorry to hear you are flooded, hope it all works out ok..

Nope, i just relocated everything to the second floor, all other people did the same in the village. Its a gated comunity not a village up north. Anyway as long as people have electricity they can go on. Water can be boiled, water pumps work ect ect ect. Once the electricity goes your basically forced to leave your home.

Because the water was coming slowly for days already (Bang Yai area) the mayor gave good instructions and we sandbagged the village. In the end it came up through the drains. Its the same all over you can sandbag all you want but the drains will do you in.

I am staying here as long as possible.

One intelligent dude here - focussed and doing the right thing. Good luck

I told you so - 2 days ago

<Snip!>.... I'm coming to bangkok on the second and i will be staying near the Chao Phya river on the other side of the saphan taksin bridge even if i'm going to be on the 9th floor its going to put a dent in my holiday plans. any advice guys?

Go to Chiang Mai

And the wash-thru could last 4 weeks. Yikes!

All the contradictory instructions. I feel so sorry for all those Bangkokians

Not sure where this piece was going! I am not an Apple fan, neither do I own anything tasting of Apple, but this guy does strike me as some sort of real visionary.

not sure, why to buy water, as tap water is good enough and rain water can be drunk as well.

would be wise to take car's battery into the home, to have some emergency lighting

that's a good idea - taking the battery indoors

Great to have Carlsberg back - but Thailand the world's 10th biggest beer market??? LOL!

In terms of what anyhow? Consumption? Production? Import?

GDC of course

My oh my, people are reacting like the capital is going to be submerged under 5 metres of flood water for weeks on end. If you cannot hold out for a couple of days with the supplies you should have in your household anyway, then you're definitely a poor housekeeper. And if the Biblical flood doesn't hit your area, you're going to sit on a stockpile of food that will last until end of the year. I have never really understood that sort of lemming-like panic buying. Has anyone started chopping down the mango trees in their garden and started to build an ark, too...?

REALLY - a bit of a sad, sarcastic comment here, don't you think!

a 64 year old bank robber ................

few more months he would have got his pension benefits

LOL !!

And the icing on the cake for me is that the "wealthy guy" scams his con men "friends" out of the lot - and they go running to the police!! HAHAHAHAH - you couldn't make this stuff up!!!

But surely this is made up - it's too unbelievable to be anything but .............. even in Thailand!

Pictures as promised yesterday - taken from four corners of Royal Lanna. Water from river still passing at quite a speed though depth (waist high) is not changing. As said above, feel very sorry for those much worse off and again, nothing done to change this, year on year!

1 am now. Water still sweeping down Loi Kroh, but only rising very slightly in night bazaar area. Pictures tomorrow.

Certainly no rain yet at Loi Kroh and the Iron Bridge, though the sky looks full of it in places. Water now approaching Pantip Plaza along Chang Klan and crossing it at the Burger King intersection to approach Duangtowan. Much traffic now turning back at this intersection. Anybody want a photo?

Shallow water just beginning to progress down Loi Kroh from river end. Rim Ping supermarket getting wet.

Open an account here which is no problem. I have accounts with Bangkok Bank and Siam Bank - both friendly and helpful like British banks were 30 years ago. Assuming you visit England on a regular basis, bring in a pocketful of cash as required - quick and easy to deposit with no charges. I just returned with £10k which goes a long way in Chiang Mai.

Because of Sunee's delicious fish & chips

Freelance journalist Andrew Drummond in Thailand has been closely following the cases and reported the Thailand Department for Disease Control said so far there are no links between the deaths of cases examined of people visiting Chiang Mai in January and February, and no link to the Downtown Inn.

- with files from Andrew Drummond

".....no link to the Downtown Inn." Like the ending of the Wizard of Oz: "disregard the man behind the curtain, he is of no concern to you. Keep looking at the image in front of you."

One can't help but wonder at the Thai medical industry here - whether or not these cases are linked by location they are ALL linked by a seemingly fatal lack of action by the health workers who were approached by the victims.it seems their first instinct is to turn a patient away and hope it clears up.

After weeks of virtually nil occupancy, some revellers showed up for Songkran, but the place looks empty again today.

All I can say Housepainter is go home, just go home.

Why do people always roll out this facile response when someone criticises Thailand?

It really is an old and risible cliche

Why do others perpetuate the thread! I know I've just done it myself - but just ignore the dross.

I've always had wonderful service from Mr Mechanic - 4 Soi 5 Moonmuang - 053 214 708

Closed from April 13 thru 15, and then it's the weekend.

There's only one choice - the ROYAL LANNA, slap bang in the middle fo downtown. Only B7,000 per month for a room 50% bigger than most other hotels. You pay a little more for regular cleaning and linen. Four floors of longstay residents reflect its value.

We sell BeerLao and BeerLao Dark here at The Olde Bell. If you want to buy it wholesale by the case to drink at home, Makro have secured the rights - it would appear the sole rights- to sell it here in chiang Mai

Do they do the even better BeerLao Gold, do you know Pedr?

Has anyone else been trying to follow some of the Chiang Mai Cricket Sixes on the internet, when not there live? I can get no video or audio feed as advertised and the results in text format come down as a completely unformatted mass of text - very difficult to take in. Certainly some room for improvement here. When there live, it is a very well run event and lots of fun. Watching the grossly overweight commentators in 'the box' constantly feeding themselves is an additional side interest!

First time I've been caught at the top of a tall building during a tremor - it's certainly more frightening than at ground level. On the 18 th floor of Royal Lanna it sure was swaying for a long time. A good attershock at 11 pm too.