On 10/22/2017 at 12:26 PM, Bullie said:

I don't want to brag, but when the same thing started happening in the Netherlands a decade ago (extreme unexpected water heights in the rivers that flow through our country due to climate change) we decided to fix the situation by deepening the rivers, giving the rivers more room to expand in designated areas and dug overflow basins -which, by the way, really come in handy in the drier periods of the year: the droughts are also becoming more  extreme.

Project took about 5 years, and will now keep us safe for the next 25 years. But that's just us.

The smarter alternative, the unfathomable " Thai way" , is of course to just sit on your hands, do nothing, and sagely predict that

" the rains will go away and then the water will go down".

Verily, there is no end to this Asian wisdom.

so the water management folks/system here either doesnt know about the techniques you describe 

or they know about them and refuse to do anything other than the thai way;

ouch and ouch

These weather experts have also prophesied that there is little chance of a White Xmas this year.