webfact Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Thunderstorms hammer Chiang Rai, 1,000 houses damaged By The Nation FILE photo Thunderstorms and hail pounded 16 districts of Chiang Rai late Monday night, damaging around 1,000 houses. Paithoon Nakthae, director of the province’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office, said reports were received of blackouts in 30 villages in five districts as utility poles were knocked over and tree branches snapped power lines. All of Mae Fah Luang district was without electricity when storms raked 12 villages in four tambon. Paithoon said hail fell on Mae Saruay district for half an hour, damaging houses, longan orchards and pumpkin gardens and blocking roads with fallen trees. In Muang district, a broken power cable resulted in a short circuit and brief fire, and a house caught fire after being struck by lightning. In Mae Sai district, trees fell against a district hospital’s exterior wall. Chiang Saen district was blacked out for 30 minutes and Wieng Kaen had power outages in several areas. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30343303 -- © Copyright The Nation 2018-04-17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcoast Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Thunderstorms hammer Chiang Rai, 1,000 houses damaged By The Nation FILE photo Thunderstorms and hail pounded 16 districts of Chiang Rai late Monday night, damaging around 1,000 houses. Paithoon Nakthae, director of the province’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office, said reports were received of blackouts in 30 villages in five districts as utility poles were knocked over and tree branches snapped power lines. All of Mae Fah Luang district was without electricity when storms raked 12 villages in four tambon. Paithoon said hail fell on Mae Saruay district for half an hour, damaging houses, longan orchards and pumpkin gardens and blocking roads with fallen trees. In Muang district, a broken power cable resulted in a short circuit and brief fire, and a house caught fire after being struck by lightning. In Mae Sai district, trees fell against a district hospital’s exterior wall. Chiang Saen district was blacked out for 30 minutes and Wieng Kaen had power outages in several areas. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30343303 -- [emoji767] Copyright The Nation 2018-04-17 Power was out for 3 hrs 5:30pm till 8:30 in my village north of Mae Chan, came back on for 30min, then the rain started again and the power went out almost immediately again for an hour. Never had such a long outage before.Sent from my abacus using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevvy Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 1 hour ago, wcoast said: Power was out for 3 hrs 5:30pm till 8:30 in my village north of Mae Chan, came back on for 30min, then the rain started again and the power went out almost immediately again for an hour. Never had such a long outage before. Sent from my abacus using Tapatalk As long as everyone was safe ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Just hit Hang Dong area of Chiang Mai biggest single storm I have seen in the last 3 years and electric still on amazingly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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