Dry season storm wreaks havoc in Pattaya

PATTAYA:--It never rains in Pattaya in January. It pours.

 

Heavy rain that blanked the eastern and central regions of Thailand Jan. 10 hit the city hard for only about two hours, but it was enough to plunge Pattaya into flooding chaos again. For all the talk from city hall about the improvements in drainage, it was obvious to nearly everyone much more work remains to be done.

 

Second and Third roads were more easily navigated by boat than bike, with 30-50 centimeters of water along the entire length of the critical thoroughfares. Backed-up sewers added insult to injury, with the water that people were forced to wade through contaminated with sewage.

 

Sukhumvit Road was hit hardest, with the section near the Highway Department inundated with a half-meter of water and motorbikes barred entirely from traversing the South Pattaya intersection.

 

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Pattaya City Hall should study some old Roman drawings. They had this drainage problem sorted 2000 years ago.

 

Thailand will never learn it or fix it because to meny of the money go to this corrupt officials 

Yeah but did the new underpass flood?

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8 hours ago, Anythingleft? said:

Yeah but did the new underpass flood?

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Anyone?

13 hours ago, Anythingleft? said:

Yeah but did the new underpass flood?

 

 

Of course not. Why shouldn't water still run downhill?

 

If so it would have been not merely reported but the main focus of the article. Fantastic click bait: local media know well that our surviving Flooders are only living in hope of finding their silliness and bigotry justified. We'd have 40 pages of crowing! Hee hee!

 

Roll Call: Surviving Tunnel Flooders

 

Edited January 21, 20188 yr by JSixpack

20 hours ago, Rimmer said:

for only about two hours, but it was enough to plunge Pattaya into flooding chaos again. For all the talk from city hall about the improvements in drainage, it was obvious to nearly everyone much more work remains to be done.

Classic.

BTW, I doubt that they actually started doing anything about it yet, as I haven't read any reports of the roads being dug up to put in really big drains. Nothing else is going to fix the problem.

A troll post and reply have been removed, dont like the topic then dont read it or reply to it.

 

Just get a small blow up raft and paddle during flooding. I use one.

Just common sense folks.