Flooding Baan Sala to Hangdong Road

[Thailand]

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.

[Thailand]

[Thailand]

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.

[cmsally]

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.

[cmsally]

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.

[Thailand]

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?

[cmsally]

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

 

[cmsally]

Holy cr-p look at these photos !

 

CM108 Hang Dong flooding

[Thailand]

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.

[trainman34014]

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

[Sparkles]

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

[Just1Voice]

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

 

[terminatorchiangmai]

[Thunder26]

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

Edited October 12, 2017 by Thunder26

[Sparkles]

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

[cmsally]

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

[Puwa]

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.