Torrential rain brings widespread flooding to central Hua Hin

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Torrential rain brings widespread flooding to central Hua Hin

 

Picture: Thaivisa News

 

Continuous heavy downpours throughout Monday night brought widespread flooding to much of central Hua Hin on Tuesday.

 

The rain started to fall just after 2am on Tuesday morning followed by a severe thunder storm, which left many residents around the area of Soi 112 without power for several hours.

 

The deluge of water meant that many low lying areas of the town were left flooded and inaccessible.

 

Picture: Thaivisa News

 

The bottom of Soi 112, close to True Arena, was badly affected, as was were the areas between Soi 112, Soi 102 and Soi 94. A number of schools in the area were forced to close for the day.

 

Phetkasem Road was also badly affected from Khao Takiab in the south, up past Blu Port and Market Village towards San Paulo Hospital.

 

The area close to Big C was also flooded and in the north of the town, the area around Soi 6 was also inundated with flood water.

 

Image shared to social media also showed the road known locally as 'Canal Road' completely flooded, as was large parts of Khao Takiab. 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-11-21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kotsak]

No worries.. 

 

 

[observer90210]

If such flooding gets unattended each year, Petchkasem Road could be used as a fine rice field in the area !!

[snoop1130]

Hua Hin seaside town hit by flooding following hours of rains

By The Nation

 

 

Overnight rains trigged by Storm Kirogi have caused flooding in the seaside town of Hua Hin.

 

Rains continued from Monday night until noon on Tuesday.

 

The rainwater caused flooding the in downtown Hua Hin with main roads leading to the town underwater.

 

Officials said the railway between Khao Tao Station in Hua Hin and Wang Pong Station in Pran Buri was under 30 centimetres of water for about 400 metres, forcing train service to be suspended in the afternoon.

 

Pol Colonel Sitthichai Srisophacharoenrast, Hua Hin police chief, said motorists travelling to Bangkok should use a bypass road instead of Phetkasem Road, which passes downtown because a section of the road was under deep water.

 

He added that Phetkasem Road in front of Hua Hin Grand Hotel the Hua Hin Market Village shopping mall was under 20cm to 30cm of water.

 

He said public schools in Hua Hin town had also been closed.

 

Municipality officials set up three water pumps to drain water from the road ahead of a flyover.

 

Jirawat Prammanee, Hua Hin’s assistant mayor, said the municipality had installed two water pumps in the downtown area and one on Soi Hua Hin 102.

 

Officials said housing estates on Soi Hua Hin 102 had been hit by floods that were about 50cm to 80cm deep.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30332160

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-11-21

[ukrules]

Yeah, it's been raining a lot lately. It even flooded outside in the street where I live and it 'never floods around here'.

 

Further up the road there's a good foot or two of water which is now draining away.

 

I shall stay inside the house today, most places are closed anyway due to 'waves' being created when cars drive past, this sends the wave of water into the streetside shops, bars / restaurants which are there.

 

[RichardColeman]

LOL and they want to bury electric wires

[ronrat]

One of the BMs here was foreced to leave 102 and is in a hotel.

[NanLaew]

Damn! Looks like shit Pattaya!

 

I was watching the satellite imagery and saw the 'storms' rolling over Pattaya... for about 45 minutes on Saturday and then dissipate. Then these intense storms quickly formed offshore and rolled over Hua Hin.

[korkenzieher]

14 hours ago, ronrat said:

One of the BMs here was foreced to leave 102 and is in a hotel.

 

I was advised by a Thai land agent on first arriving 10 years back, never to buy land or property around 102 going toward 112 because of high historical flooding risk. If you have been here any amount of time, and seen how many developments are built on top of what is basically sea-level swamp land, maybe raised a meter or so with hardcore, you probably wouldn't either. The new pump station on 102 cannot cope with the kind of load that was dumped over the last couple of days. The picture above, with the red truck, is the new section of Petchkasem at the bottom of 112 - built with no drainage facility whatsoever.

 

In a country whose main agricultural product is rice, which tends to require at least a certain amount of land inundation, you might expect the engineers to show a little more fore-sight when doing design work - because it will cost you more in the long-run when you cut these corners.

 

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

Korkenzieher said:

 

......... The picture above, with the red truck, is the new section of Petchkasem at the bottom of 112 - built with no drainage facility whatsoever.....

 

Clearly you do not know the road. When it was upgraded to four lanes with service roads on both sides of the highway, three sub-level and parallel storm drains were built. The flooding problem that occurs each time in the mini-traffic circle area at the end of Soi 112 is that during heavy or continuous rain the drains cannot empty fast enough to prevent overflow.

 

The good news is that, before the road upgrade and drains were installed the Phetchakasem Road from the end of the flyover southwards to the Land Office would flood to an impassable depth snarling traffic in both directions. Now at least the water depth is minimised and usually even cars can crawl through.

 

Just look at the Google Street View and you can see the drains.