7 hours ago, peterb17 said:

I stand by my older post - there are some very unpleasant people on this forum- perhaps if it was their child was lost in this cave ??
I have no idea why they hate this country so much or have become so bitter and twisted. It’s sad .
How anyone can post - thinking it might be amusing or witty in this situation.
Just pathetic.



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Not disagreeing with you, but let's get real for a moment. For all the comments and the beating of breasts and the gnashing of teeth, the likely result of it all so far as TVF and TVF posters is likely to be zero - nil - nada. The forum won't be read by anyone associated with the current exercise in Chiang Rai, and if it were, the comments (some of which seem to be posted by experienced and knowledgeable people) would not be acted upon - for whatever reason.

 

All of the outpouring here has one benefit only and that is to make the posters feel like their knowledge is useful and wanted. It isn't either one.

 

It's good to want to be informed but for goodness' sake, this is Thailand, nobody gives a damn what skills and knowledge we have or don't have. It just isn't going to make any difference. All we're doing is shouting so we can hear and feel comforted by our own echo.

 

Better to keep an eye on the TV and wait for the inevitable, because imho, this is not going to end well.

5 hours ago, bannork said:

There are live updates on Thai Tv and facebook continuously.

In English?

 

 

The thing is you cannot rust any of the media to give us truthful updates. There has been a report that a hole has been found. On Thai PBS it states that the hole is 40 metres deep and that a Border Patrol Policeman went down the hole and entered the cave and said that the ground was muddy, then there is the news report from The Nation that a hole has been found and that it is 60 metres deep and that a Border Patrol Policeman entered the hole but could not enter the cave. This is the reporting by the media in English and they cannot get their stories straight. Which is the correct story

19 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

I was in Mae Sai today, and it hadn't rained in quite a while, and we could see the helicopters bombing around and drilling and tunneling equipment on standby down the road. I couldn't help thinking, If this weather holds, maybe they can get further in today. We went into the Macro which has a view of the mountain, and just as we got inside a massive rainfall started and everybody looked towards the mountain and it seemed like we all sighed at the same moment. So discouraging

This breaks my heart! Best reporting so far of the whole mess...One single paragraph that brought tears to my eyes. btw, have you seen the Brits experts trooping about, whatever happened to them, don't hear from/about them no more, have they gone underground in more ways than one? 

 

I caught a snippet of thai TV news interviewing a schoolkid apparently a teammate who for some reason was left out of the "expedition". He looked kinda in shock understandably....They also interviewed the dad, it went real short ("maybe now is not the time...") but I would have given anything to understand what the man got to say.

Official rainy season commences tomorrow with August and September being the wettest months of the year.......