Baan Sala on the Canal road right down to the Hangdong road. Many houses flooded, looks like maybe a flash flood perhaps other areas hit by now. Traffic being delayed on the main Chiangmai Hod road. Never seen anything like it since 2011.

This is just the road from the Canal road to Hangdong road, houses baddly flooded all the way down, devastating for those affected to wake up to this.

Strange, as we have a house very near to there (if its the road that has an entrance to Moo Bahn Roong Arun) and no flooding whatsoever. !. I think something must have gone very wrong with the irrigation canal.

There is flooding this morning south of Sanpatong - Mae Klang has burst its banks.

Maybe they have tried to divert water across to the Ping River direction as the south already flooded.

Someone just told me a dam collapsed somewhere in Samoeng district, don't know if that info is correct. A lot of flooding on the Hang Dong Rd area now.

38 minutes ago, cmsally said:

Someone just told me a dam collapsed somewhere in Samoeng district, don't know if that info is correct. A lot of flooding on the Hang Dong Rd area now.

That would fit with what seemed to be a flash flood type scenario. Friend in Baan Sala says the water is finally receding.

 

Any more news?

Only update I got was that Kad Farang is flooded (or flooded in parts).

 

Holy cr-p look at these photos !

 

CM108 Hang Dong flooding

4 minutes ago, cmsally said:

Holy cr-p look at these photos !

 

CM108 Hang Dong flooding

This is what I saw earlier, water waist deep or more in places. I just got out of there as it looked like it was getting worse.

The water on 108 has subsided a lot now and the road is passable.

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

That would fit with what seemed to be a flash flood type scenario. Friend in Baan Sala says the water is finally receding.

 

Any more news?

Amost guaranteed that a major breach in some water storage area has broken.No way  is that from just current rainfall.

I guess we will get updates as to source

10 years ago, when I first moved here, my wife and I were looking for a new house.  I saw a couple in Hang Dong I liked, but wife was adamant - "No Hang Dong!  Floods too much!"  We ended up on Doi Saket District, MILES from any river. lol

 

The was heavy rainfall  in the mountains yesterday. Many areas received more than 100 mm of rain. So I guess is water run-off.

18 hours ago, Thunder26 said:

The was heavy rainfall  in the mountains yesterday. Many areas received more than 100 mm of rain. So I guess is water run-off.

Isnt that why the Canal  Rd has a canal running down it to collect run off from the mountains? 100 mm is not monumental, hard to believe it caused 1 metre + flooding. in basically one area.We may never be officially  told

I heard that a dam named as Mae Tien (sp?) in Samoeng district "collapsed".

6 hours ago, Sparkles said:

Isnt that why the Canal  Rd has a canal running down it to collect run off from the mountains? 

As an irrigation canal, its purpose is to carry water for agriculture.