Rain chaos in Pattaya as district chief on scene of tour bus that fell down a hole

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Rain chaos in Pattaya as district chief on scene of tour bus that fell down a hole

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Just an hour of rain left Pattaya in chaos yesterday with many roads submerged under floodwaters.

 

In North Pattaya at the end of Soi Pothisan Banglamung district chief Naris Niramaiwong rolled up his trousers and directed operations after a tour bus fell down a hole.

 

Barriers were supposed to be protecting the hole but they had been washed away and the driver could not see the danger.

 

Daily News reported that several other vehicles were damaged.

 

Naris ordered the area to be cordoned off before warning local residents to brace for more rains to come.

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-09-04

 

 

[Just1Voice]

If that's Patt's after just ONE HOUR of heavy rain, I would hate to see it if got hit with THREE HOURS of downpour like we've had here in Chiang Mai 4-5 times so far this year.  

[BestB]

I thought Pattaya drainage problem was already fixed and nothing to worry about , turns out more flooding to come.

 

 

[edwinchester]

"Barriers were supposed to be protecting the hole but they had been washed away...."

 

Why does this not surprise me in the slightest?

[Chang_paarp]

29 minutes ago, BestB said:

I thought Pattaya drainage problem was already fixed and nothing to worry about , turns out more flooding to come.

 

 

The quoted price from some of the committees was in the billions of Baht. After the drool was mopped up the money has not been forthcoming.

[mok199]

pattaya beach new sand is washed away ,now exposing the new sand bags....this new beach rejuvination is the biggest disaster to pattaya....in 2 years the beach from dusit to walking street will be bags...

[Thian]

They all drive fast through the water causing big waves which will go into the shops and make motobikes tumble over. 

[johng]

Same every year...  South Pattaya road

2005

 

2009

 

2011

 

etc etc etc....

[NCC1701A]

OMG!

 

I hope all my girlfriends on Soi Six are OK.

[BestB]

8 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

OMG!

 

I hope all my girlfriends on Soi Six are OK.

They have banana boats on standby ?

[Vacuum]

8 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

OMG!

 

I hope all my girlfriends on Soi Six are OK.

At least one of them looks ok, according to the pic.

[NCC1701A]

Pattaya 2005. Before smart phones, red hair dye, braces, fattening fast food. Nice pic johng

[johng]

Not the first to fall down a hole either ( South Pattaya road again )

[Justgrazing]

One of the sub's was sent to tow it outta the hole ..

[johng]

29 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

Pattaya 2005. Before smart phones, red hair dye, braces, fattening fast food.

When I was living around the market shown in the photo there was so much "eye candy"

lots of girls from Walking Street would eat at the night food street stalls  set up from about midnight to 4AM  they live/d in the cheap apartments all round the back streets in the area..??

[owl sees all]

A real loss of face for the new 'world class family city'. The district chief will be concerned at the excess water

 

[johng]

Yes remember its not flooding....just water that is waiting to drain away !!!

[johng]

10 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

One of the sub's was sent to tow it outta the hole ..

Tour bus a-hoy !!

 

[scorecard]

3 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

The quoted price from some of the committees was in the billions of Baht. After the drool was mopped up the money has not been forthcoming.

 

Utterly disgraceful considering the hundreds of billions of Baht spent in flood control in the greater PAttaya area over the last 30 years at least, which has achieved close to nothing. 

 

 

[scorecard]

2 hours ago, johng said:

Yes remember its not flooding....just water that is waiting to drain away !!!

 Reminds me of the Thai bank manager who was receiving a complaint from a customer about the clerk insisting that ATM cards are now compulsory, which is not true.

 

Manager retorts - 'But the clerk is just trying to help you'.

 

 

[Jackin1960]

What's this obsession with Thais always posing for a photo at every chance.

[Tiredofglasshalfemptyexpat]

5 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

If that's Patt's after just ONE HOUR of heavy rain, I would hate to see it if got hit with THREE HOURS of downpour like we've had here in Chiang Mai 4-5 times so far this year.  

Lucky we don't get awful weather like in Chiang Mai then ...!!

 

 

[CanuckThai]

Pattaya needs a few civil/dam engineers from Laos (and the Thai company involved), those guys can move water in a hurry..............

[smedly]

3 hours ago, owl sees all said:

A real loss of face for the new 'world class family city'. The district chief will be concerned at the excess water

 

Some real genius posts on here today, when you have heavy rain anywhere in the world there will always be a build up of water causing a flood - the issue is how quickly it drains when the rain stops, some notorious areas hit by flooding last night were clear 2 hours later - that tells me the drainage system actually did its job.

[Darkside Gray]

Raining again, there will be no flooding.

[jossthaifarang]

I wonder how the new underpass is holding up?

[Vacuum]

 

What's up with all these holes in Pattaya, drain the water more quickly?

[johng]

No reports of the underpass flooding..it should be impossible for it to flood !

[sungod]

3 hours ago, owl sees all said:

A real loss of face for the new 'world class family city'.

And the prize for the most unoriginal quote of the days goes to..................

[Katipo]

A fascinating photo for sure. Does he realise it symbolises the incompetence of Government officials, the ladder of which he's right at the top?