Rainy season is back, and so are Pattaya’s floods

[Rimmer]

Rainy season is back, and so are Pattaya’s floods

PATTAYA:--Songkran is over and the rainy season has returned. And the usual flooding problems have come back with it.

 

Water ran a meter deep on Sukhumvit Road near the Highway Department April 27 following a second day of tropical storms. Beach and Third roads, likewise, turned into rivers with 40-60 centimeters of storm runoff disabling traffic. Roaring rapids developed along the major East Pattaya roads.

 

Authorities deployed pumps in seven locations to help drain the water and, after two hours, the roads became passable again.

For those repeatedly hit with water damage, city hall’s promises of relief can’t be fulfilled soon enough.

 

For those repeatedly hit with water damage, city hall’s promises of relief can’t be fulfilled soon enough.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-05-04

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, Rimmer said:

after two hours, the roads became passable again.

so at least the road deaths stopped for 2 hours 

[observer90210]

So much for all the crap told last year regarding repairs on the road gutters....

[quandow]

How is the new Sukhumvit underpass doing?

[johng]

4 minutes ago, quandow said:

Sukhumvit underpass

No reports of it flooding...yet

[jimn]

13 minutes ago, johng said:

No reports of it flooding...yet

Its absolutely brilliant dispite my predictions that it will flood. It is however built on a high part of the road so rain runs away from it. My wife has said there are plans to build 2 more. 1 at the Pattaya Thai intersection and one at thr Therepesit Rd intersection. That would be a concern for flooding as there is always flooding at these points.

[johng]

I doubt (but stranger things happen)
they would do 1 at Theprasit and another at South junction they are very close..+ South always floods I think they could do it by making the entry/exit points on the higher points north and south but they would have the very problem everyone feared with central underpass ?

In my opinion it would make sense to have underpasses ,if not overpasses at
Theprasit-south (combined ? )
central and one at north road junction..
roundabouts would be much cheaper and quicker but the Thais just don't seem able to use them properly. [emoji45]

[Expatthailover]

This will kick the hornets nest.

 

[Expatthailover]

This will kick the hornets nest.

 

[topt]

3 hours ago, jimn said:

My wife has said there are plans to build 2 more. 1 at the Pattaya Thai intersection and one at thr Therepesit Rd intersection.

 

2 hours ago, johng said:

I doubt (but stranger things happen)
they would do 1 at Theprasit and another at South junction

This was the original plan reported before they started the Klang tunnel.

Whether that plan has survived the last 3 years with a new administration ..............? 

[edwinchester]

13 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

so at least the road deaths stopped for 2 hours 

Do road drownings count?

[jacko45k]

16 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

so at least the road deaths stopped for 2 hours 

Unless there were drownings.... oops beaten to it.

Edited May 4, 2018 by jacko45k

[mikebell]

Don't tell me we're in for another three years of congestion.  Over passes must be a third as cheap as a tunnel and twice as fast to build.

[Bangkokazy]

Such is life in the city of sin

[Expatthailover]

Another of these threads where some  ( not all ) bemoan the fact that flooding occurs in a developing country..wow what a surprise.

They sob and stamp their feet etc and ask why is it allowed despite everyone knowing the money isnt there for the infrastructure we are accustomed to in 'good old back home'.

 

[torrzent]

On 5/4/2018 at 2:14 PM, jimn said:

My wife has said there are plans to build 2 more.

Is she a city planner, or do you believe everything she says?

[Henrik Andersen]

3 hours ago, Expatthailover said:

Another of these threads where some  ( not all ) bemoan the fact that flooding occurs in a developing country..wow what a surprise.

They sob and stamp their feet etc and ask why is it allowed despite everyone knowing the money isnt there for the infrastructure we are accustomed to in 'good old back home'.

 

Meaby that's is the weather is going more and more crazy for every year the world change of pollution in every country not only Thailand but all the world because we don't have taken action and changed our way to live in Europe we get more bad weather too America get it  Asian get more storm's and raining this world going to change if we not do anything but we are to late for change it over 100 year's we know it but just ignore it 

I can only say this good luck to this lifestyle we have now 

It will not last forever 

[Chivas]

Lol Rainy season.....??

September and October is the heavy rain monsoon season.  May to August will get heavy downpours now and again but by no stretch of the imagination is May the rainy season

[essox essox]

On 04/05/2018 at 1:53 PM, quandow said:

How is the new Sukhumvit underpass doing?

Was thinking the same MUST have been flooded surley???

would like to see photos of it without water ...

[balo]

On 5/4/2018 at 1:23 PM, RichardColeman said:

so at least the road deaths stopped for 2 hours 

But the numbers of deaths by electrocution skyrocketed for 2 hours. 

 

[brling]

On 5/6/2018 at 2:36 PM, Expatthailover said:

Another of these threads where some  ( not all ) bemoan the fact that flooding occurs in a developing country..wow what a surprise.

They sob and stamp their feet etc and ask why is it allowed despite everyone knowing the money isnt there for the infrastructure we are accustomed to in 'good old back home'.

 

Nonsense reply, grow up

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎5‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 8:36 PM, Expatthailover said:

Another of these threads where some  ( not all ) bemoan the fact that flooding occurs in a developing country..wow what a surprise.

They sob and stamp their feet etc and ask why is it allowed despite everyone knowing the money isnt there for the infrastructure we are accustomed to in 'good old back home'.

 

Thailand hasn't been a "developing" country for decades.

There is plenty of money and they are fully capable of building things properly. The reason that things don't get built properly or maintained, is well known, but definitely not a question of "development".

If not for the known problem, Thailand could have the infrastructure of Singapore.

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎5‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 12:36 AM, Henrik Andersen said:

Meaby that's is the weather is going more and more crazy for every year the world change of pollution in every country not only Thailand but all the world because we don't have taken action and changed our way to live in Europe we get more bad weather too America get it  Asian get more storm's and raining this world going to change if we not do anything but we are to late for change it over 100 year's we know it but just ignore it 

I can only say this good luck to this lifestyle we have now 

It will not last forever 

LOL. Thailand has had monsoon rains as long as it has had people. The reason for flooding is unregulated and unplanned development without installing proper drainage systems, for the usual reason.

[Henrik Andersen]

21 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. Thailand has had monsoon rains as long as it has had people. The reason for flooding is unregulated and unplanned development without installing proper drainage systems, for the usual reason.

And your answer about the rest of the world 

Is that the same as Thailand? 

And as the monsoon in Asia just get same every year sorry you need to read more about weather before your answer because weather had changed drastically in the last decade 

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎5‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 4:45 PM, Henrik Andersen said:

And your answer about the rest of the world 

Is that the same as Thailand? 

And as the monsoon in Asia just get same every year sorry you need to read more about weather before your answer because weather had changed drastically in the last decade 

Monsoon rain is monsoon rain regardless about climate change. A lot of water in a short time. Doesn't matter as to overall rainfall.

[balo]

Heavy thunderstorm right now , expect flooding.