Pattaya: Flooding widespread as rain lashes resort

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Pattaya: Flooding widespread as rain lashes resort

 

 

Thai media 77kaoded reported that heavy summer rains lashed Pattaya yesterday leaving many roads unpassable. 

 

Pictures of motorists being helped to wheel their vehicles off the roads were plenty.

 

Particularly badly hit were Sukhumvut, the road by the railway and Soi Khao Noi.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Drainage work is ongoing in Pattaya with officials hoping that this will solve the resort's long standing flooding issues.

 

More could be on the way. Weather conditions until May 18 could see more misery for Pattaya and the rest of upper Thailand.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[Henryford]

I thought the endless road works had fixed the drains.

[essox essox]

so much for ALL the drainage works !!!! what was/is beach road like in PATTS ??

[pineapple01]

Oh please send it North. Its dryer than a Witches Tit up here.

[johng]

Ahh that's where the very large black cloud that passed by Jomtien yesterday  got to.

[bodga]

41 minutes ago, webfact said:

Drainage work is ongoing in Pattaya with officials hoping that this will solve the resort's long standing flooding issues.

Every  year.

[ezzra]

"Drainage work" Pattaya poor excuses for many years now every time it's flood they come up with "on going work with the drainage system".. Pathetic...

[HashBrownHarry]

What a joke - 1 downpour only?!!!!

 

 

[dcsw53]

" expected to be able to drain and prevent Pattaya from being affected by rain and causing no floods in Pattaya. "
As much chance of that happening as Prayut making Thaksin Deputy Prime Minister.

[bert bloggs]

I was trapped in the Esso station in the picture for about half an hour ,then got out and drove to Banglamung , dry as a bone there .thank you God ,not

[J Town]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Drainage work is ongoing in Pattaya with officials hoping that this will solve the resort's long standing flooding issues.

I bet if I did a search on that statement, I could go back DECADES and find these very same words.

[Henryford]

Meanwhile many houses in Pattaya have no water because of the drought.

[champers]

103 FM radio report that the beach remained intact. Just a quick downpour here in Naklua, nothing spectacular.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, essox essox said:

so much for ALL the drainage works !!!! what was/is beach road like in PATTS ??

Isn't finished yet, the pipes are mostly blocked with sand anyhow.

[jacko45k]

44 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

I was trapped in the Esso station in the picture for about half an hour ,then got out and drove to Banglamung , dry as a bone there .thank you God ,not

I am a little further north, had about 30 minutes of rain but nothing like Pattaya obviously.

[essox essox]

1 hour ago, pineapple01 said:

Oh please send it North. Its dryer than a Witches Tit up here.

no no no we need down here.....get your own rain !! hee hee

[pineapple01]

3 minutes ago, essox essox said:

no no no we need down here.....get your own rain !! hee hee

Thats not kind. A soon as we get some it flattens the rice then all runs South and those Hi Sos in Bkk get their Gucci Loafers all wet

[essox essox]

2 hours ago, Henryford said:

I thought the endless road works had fixed the drains.

are you some kinda joker......this is thailand !!!

[essox essox]

there was very little rain in  Jomtien yesterday !!!

[essox essox]

Just now, pineapple01 said:

AhSo. You never been to Africa, many dangling about there.

been rsa.....but not into a jungle !!!

went to cape of good hope but NO BARS THERE OR HAPPY ENDING massage salons !!!

plenty of penguins tho'

[essox essox]

9 minutes ago, pineapple01 said:

Thats not kind. A soon as we get some it flattens the rice then all runs South and those Hi Sos in Bkk get their Gucci Loafers all wet

better to wear simple sandals....feet soon dry out and so do the sandals !!!

[Rimmer]

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[jojothai]

Good news. Its safe to go out now.

The outside areas will all be cleared of that dreaded virus that is killing so many people here.

[Guderian]

1 hour ago, Henryford said:

Meanwhile many houses in Pattaya have no water because of the drought.

Yes, it was kind of funny watching my neighbour opposite standing in the rain while a tanker truck filled up his empty water tank. Just adds insult to 200 Baht of misery.

[Yankeesvsredsox]

26 minutes ago, jojothai said:

Good news. Its safe to go out now.

The outside areas will all be cleared of that dreaded virus that is killing so many people here.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the virus live in waste water,catch basins

[pineapple01]

57 minutes ago, essox essox said:

better to wear simple sandals....feet soon dry out and so do the sandals !!!

One simply cant get into the 19th in Sandals Old Chap.!

[edwinchester]

2 hours ago, J Town said:

I bet if I did a search on that statement, I could go back DECADES and find these very same words.

Yeah, most journalists have that exact paragraph ready in their cut and paste to save time.

[actonion]

Drainage works,  or no Drainage works,  until  they stop throwing garbage onto the streets  and  the Bin men do their job of collecting garbage, which they don't ,  there will always be floods in Pattaya, every Drain  is covered with garbage, so how can the rainwater run into the drain....it can't,    so we have floods every year ...

[Kerryd]

A video from the Pattaya One facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pattayaone1/videos/1465042020344601/

That deluge yesterday was the first time I've seen the drains in the village overflow.

Normally you have to drive down Soi Khao Noi to around the Mike Orchid Villa housing complex before seeing the drains full and flowing back onto the road. But yesterday they were backed all the way to the Chill (at least) and into our "village".
Must have been quite the raging river by the time it got to the storm grates at the railway bypass road ! 
But then, it's like that every time anyways.

Just like how Sukhumvit floods by the Pattaya Tai intersection every time despite the massive drainage ditch in the middle.  

And 2 hours after the rain ended, the streets were dry and the drains (up here) empty again.

No pics from Beach Road or the area where they are doing all the work though. Too bad. I remember pics from years ago where it was like one of those "infinity" pools from the sidewalk in front of the bars until the edge of the walkway where the water dropped onto the beach. You couldn't see where the road, curb or speedbumps were !
 

[sammieuk1]

What's the current position of the beach is a danger to shipping yet ????