How about a spot of windsurfing - on Beach Road?!

[rooster59]

How about a spot of windsurfing - on Beach Road?!

 

Image: TNA

 

A group of windsurfers looked as though they were going to switch operations to Beach Road yesterday as a huge storm lashed Chonburi province.

 

Much of Pattaya and Jomtien was paralyzed as flooding up to 30 centimeters hit main roads and sois after two hours of torrential rain.

 

TNA quoting local authority sources said that the drains just couldn't cope with the deluge.

 

Especially as they are clogged up with trash. 

 

Local Pattaya police station chief Apichai Krobpetch was key in ordering his men out to help tourists in difficulty, added TNA. 

 

Source: TNA

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-04-28

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

[JohnC]

Anyone down Soi Bukhau area? Is it passable?

[mok199]

 ''THIER BACK''.pattaya city returned the flood pumps this morning on soi 5 beach rd(beside the shrine)

[doremifasol]

Pffffff.........still there in 2018. 

 

 

[marko kok prong]

WOW,  have never seen this in Pattaya before,drains clogged with rubbish surely not.

[champers]

Look!  We've bought our officers some lovely new orange coats.

[NCC1701A]

I just checked the Thailand 4.0 state of the art radar loop out of Bangkok.

 

 

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

I just checked the Thailand 4.0 state of the art radar loop out of Bangkok.

 

 

check windy.com.

The rain could be here for a couple of days.

[RichardColeman]

Time for a military or naval parade !

[Rimmer]

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=12.22;103.36;6&l=rain-3h

Or

https://www.windy.com/14.897/100.833?rain,11.953,100.668,7,m:d3YaiXe

[dcsw53]

Don't mind the windsurfers its the jet skis that hack me off. Always running red lights.

[jacko45k]

And more of the same today I expect, it has been raining since dawn..... 

[phantomfiddler]

The concept of continually falling drains ensuring a minimum 3 fps self cleaning flow velocity has never really caught on in Pattaya.

I recently observed a 3-street storm drainage project in Pattaya, during which a proper tripod level was never used, and in one case the pipe exiting a manhole is 8" higher than the pipe going in ! Of course it is going to clog up !

[Rimmer]

Grammar police post removed

[KhunBENQ]

First picture is from Jomtien beach, between Soi 5 and 6.

And that is indeed a wind surfers meeting point

Edited April 28, 2018 by KhunBENQ

[overherebc]

Is that the new beach in the video clip?

[mikebell]

On 28/04/2018 at 5:21 PM, phantomfiddler said:

The concept of continually falling drains ensuring a minimum 3 fps self cleaning flow velocity has never really caught on in Pattaya.

I recently observed a 3-street storm drainage project in Pattaya, during which a proper tripod level was never used, and in one case the pipe exiting a manhole is 8" higher than the pipe going in ! Of course it is going to clog up !

Totally agree with this comment.  Most Thai car drivers don't know how to operate the left/right turn signals.  Expecting a Civil engineer to understand a tripod level is impossible.  Flood drainage here merely creates stagnant pools in which to breed mosquitoes.  These chambers eventually clog up & voila floods.

[morrobay]

On 4/28/2018 at 11:10 AM, mok199 said:

 ''THIER BACK''.pattaya city returned the flood pumps this morning on soi 5 beach rd(beside the shrine)

Required since that major drain pipe project at soi6 failed. As well as the massive drain pipe above Walking St. Now there is a major concrete area collapse in area between large portable green pump and pump house. The water there is black. About only thing to show for that project is that sorry construction trailer trash mess.

[johng]

On 4/29/2018 at 10:30 AM, overherebc said:

in the video clip?

Which video clip ?

[overherebc]

18 minutes ago, johng said:

Which video clip ?

Was part of post 2 by  JF  but seems to have gone.

[johng]

On 4/28/2018 at 2:42 PM, Rimmer said:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=12.22;103.36;6&l=rain-3h

Or

https://www.windy.com/14.897/100.833?rain,11.953,100.668,7,m:d3YaiXe

Good as these are they still seem to be at least an hour out of date...so earlier

( after checking ventusky) and from the window seeing nice sunshine

I put my washing out to dry and 5 minutes later it gets dark and a huge big black cloud rolls over and its all wet again..Ill leave it out hoping the cloud passes over quickly. 

 

[johng]

Ok  my bad  "operator error"    slide the slider  a bit to the right and voila big black cloud.

[overherebc]

8 minutes ago, johng said:

Good as these are they still seem to be at least an hour out of date...so earlier

( after checking ventusky) and from the window seeing nice sunshine

I put my washing out to dry and 5 minutes later it gets dark and a huge big black cloud rolls over and its all wet again..Ill leave it out hoping the cloud passes over quickly. 

 

V heavy around my area although when my wife drove to the local veg' market 4 kilometre away it was bone dry and sunny ( then )

Forecasts don't apply to backyards yet. ??

[johng]

On 4/28/2018 at 10:05 PM, KhunBENQ said:

Jomtien beach, between Soi 5

Soi 5 is ( I'm guessing) always like a river  when it rains like that...last time I had to go to immigration the road was flooded for a quite a while.

I managed to keep dry feet by  parking in front of  "The Ocean 1 Tower"  on second road 

and cutting through the  "Powerhouse Proprieties Co"  car park which conveniently leads to the restaurant next to immigration.

[thaibeachlovers]

There are really big drains under Beach Rd, but I bet they've filled with sand and garbage, plus when they widened Beach Rd I doubt they bothered to connect the road side drains to the big pipes.

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎4‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 1:59 PM, morrobay said:

Required since that major drain pipe project at soi6 failed. As well as the massive drain pipe above Walking St. Now there is a major concrete area collapse in area between large portable green pump and pump house. The water there is black. About only thing to show for that project is that sorry construction trailer trash mess.

I think you are saying the "new" walkway has collapsed ( again ). Oh my, where are the usual posters that claim it was such a great project?