Pattaya under water following two hours of heavy rain

[observer90210]

Relax...it's the Hon. Respected PM's,  7 day clean up,  miracle. Praise the lord.

[BestB]

And did anyone see any rescue or assistance ? No.

 

the only ones who enjoyed it were my dogs who were diving and bringing in all the shoes and whatever else they could find.

 

might be opening second hand shoe shop this week if neighbors do not come to claim some of their belongings ????

[Psimbo]

Why am I commenting on a Pattaya Forum- because I was there yesterday. I clearly left just in time at 9am.

 

People are forgetting that ANY torrential downpour is going to overwhelm ANY system in place. What do you expect- 20m  diameter sewer pipes? It does drain away quite quickly. There was a heavy shower on Sunday at about 1300 and the roads filled up but were clear again within 30 minutes. 

[Psimbo]

2 hours ago, Brigand said:

2 hours of rain and their most famous tourist draw city is under a meter of water. Pretty piss-poor if you ask me and obviously some lame officials in charge. 

Yep- he can just look up at the sky and shout 'no more rain, we're full' can't he.

 

There's a difference between '2 hours of rain' and 2 hour of torrential downpour.

 

You do realise that this is the start of the RAINY season don't you? That's when it rains HEAVILY at times.

[champers]

The City needs a couple of these beauties. Not sure where they would go.

 

[tlandtday]

The Romans could have built better.

[Banana7]

8 hours ago, overherebc said:

How is the new beach holding up?

Here are a few pics of the new beach after April 2, 2019 downpour. Simply a marvel of Thai engineering to hold up so well after a 2 hr. downpour. I wonder what it will look like after 4 months of downpours?

 

The Engineer who designed the spillways should barred from the Engineering profession, and fired.

 

A waste of pubic money!

[DoctorG]

Good to see the usual safety measures around that rather large hole (above photo).

[Emdog]

I thought God promised "The Fire Next Time"

[sammieuk1]

6 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Here are a few pics of the new beach after April 2, 2019 downpour. Simply a marvel of Thai engineering to hold up so well after a 2 hr. downpour. I wonder what it will look like after 4 months of downpours?

 

The Engineer who designed the spillways should barred from the Engineering profession, and fired.

 

A waste of pubic money!

World class ????

[Lupatria]

10 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Good to see the usual safety measures around that rather large hole (above photo).

Designed and executed by people respectfully referred to as "mor nam".

[jacko45k]

14 hours ago, NanLaew said:

That's a new twist on an old theme but how on earth do we get from "Will the Sukhumvit tunnel flood?" to "The Sukhumvit tunnel causes flooding."?

You use a little mental exercise.

[justin case]

pattaya @ the sea

[Lupatria]

15 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Nearing the north of Ko Lan heading towards Ko Sak????

The owner of the beach restoring sand delivering company has preliminary suspended the order given to his personnel: daily chanting, incense burning, praying, and alms offered to the house shrine for rain.

[Borzandy]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

as the rainwater could not be drained fast enough.

As the drains are full of plastic bottles and garbage.

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[phantomfiddler]

Storm drainage is hardly rocket science, yet ....... ? ????

[Thunder26]

16 hours ago, overherebc said:

How is the new beach holding up?

It was completely washed out and destroyed. What a waste of taxpayers money. There's no foresight in planning. very poor management and decision making.

[BestB]

59 minutes ago, Borzandy said:

As the drains are full of plastic bottles and garbage.

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Do not think it’s the reason as city cleans drains, I think it has more to do with drainage being outdated in terms of size of the city. City has grown 1000 times it was when drains were installed , size and number of drains simply not enough to cope with water fall and thousands of condos , malls and all other housings. 

 

Some areas did did not have drains at all till last year , so add all of the new drains to current ones and it’s like a bottle neck 

[essox essox]

19 hours ago, khwaibah said:

Isaan can use that water pipe it over. Oh forgot Bangkok is spending all the money on high speed trains.

so one can get out of the way of floods quickly....a word comes to mind PRIORITIES !!!

[mikebell]

I've been here 15 years and despite all the stories about improvements, nothing has changed.  When it rains parts of Pattaya floods.  An hour after it stops, it's clear except for the debris.  That usually takes a month to clear with farang volunteers to the fore.

I did my shopping and was home by 11am.  Snigger.

[marinediscoking]

Every time for the last 25 years I see drain work or a road being replaced I stop to take a look a the drains. Each time my opinion is they are 50% too small. They normally don't take out the small old one and just run the new along in parallel with it. They did this when they widened Soi buakhao and resurfaced center road. 

The last idiot mayer who approved the widening of beach road did not order a drain put under it whilst it was dug up. He would not answer questions about it after the fist big rain when questioned.  So the beach will continue to be washed away until there is a big enough drain running under beach road to the processing plant and the beginning of walking street.  

 

When people say all they have to do is clean the drains, they have not idea of what they are talking about! As was just proven by the recent, 2 month long Soi Buakhao sludge removal project by the pattaya prisoners which had no impact from yesterday's rain.

[Bangkokazy]

This heavy rain and flooding lasted in Pattaya for several hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wqL1n2yELQ

[johng]

And before the "super duper" beach renovation.

 

 

[stanleycoin]

1 hour ago, johng said:

And before the "super duper" beach renovation.

 

 

Reminds me of this.  or maybe Sodom and Gomorrah 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FgDles4xq8

 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2019 by stanleycoin

[johng]

"Hands up" and "Rasputin" are maybe more popular Boney M songs in Pattaya.

[mok199]

Pattaya beach new drainage system which was meant to solve the beach erosion.... The Thai think tanks brilliant idea...needless to say ''a complete failure''..

Edited April 3, 2019 by mok199

[chama]

On 4/2/2019 at 5:09 AM, overherebc said:

How is the new beach holding up?

What beach (long gone and replaced by all of the trash that was in the city streets)? 

[marinediscoking]

They had 4 backhoes tonight working to bring the washed out sand with a dozen of Gov. Officials watching. They had filled in the new runoffs down till soi 5 so they might get most of the beach done. Looked to me they might have reclaimed 60% of the sand. Sorry for the dark photos. 

[jacko45k]

11 hours ago, chama said:

What beach (long gone and replaced by all of the trash that was in the city streets)? 

The rubbishy one was replaced by one that was wide sand and actually looked pretty good. It was kept clean for the short time before the rains washed a lot of it away.

[thaibeachlovers]

Haven't read all the thread, but how is the underpass doing?

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Everytime I see something like this I get a naughty sense of satisfaction knowing that the city's lords and masters have <deleted> it up yet again.

Any that know LOS know the reason it happens over and over and over, ad infinitum, and we know why the citizens keep electing those incompetents. Known as shooting oneself in the foot.