Video: Man makes incredible escape as Chiang Rai village washed away by floods

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Video: Man makes incredible escape as Chiang Rai village washed away by floods

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Dramatic footage from a village in Chiang Rai in the far north of Thailand showed the moments when a man clambered onto the roof of a collapsed building during a violent flash flood. 

 

Daily News said that the man managed to save himself despite the building disintegrating all around him. 

 

The footage was widely viewed with posters commenting how lucky he was to survive the deadly currents.

 

The incident happened on Tuesday in the village of A-Dee in the mae Yao sub district of Muang district Chiang Rai. 

 

Ninety houses were damaged in the flood with four being washed away entirely. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[Tropicalevo]

Absolutely terrifying. Amazing footage.

A very lucky man.

[Geoffggi]

A very unlucky but Lucky person, he deserves his life ....!!!!

[ronaldo0]

He’s very lucky as that is some amount of water with force flowing through there ! ????????????

[rumak]

Mrs R was watching the video ..... i didn't know what was going on.  I just heard the audio and thought

it was the neighbor's wife yelling at him again for coming home drunk

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, ronaldo0 said:

He’s very lucky as that is some amount of water with force flowing through there ! ????????????

Makes you wonder why he hadn't made an exit earlier?

[kensawadee]

9 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Absolutely terrifying. Amazing footage.

A very lucky man.

YES!  And then to think about.......The main concern of Thailand's Gov't is Submarines.

[Susco]

34 minutes ago, kensawadee said:

YES!  And then to think about.......The main concern of Thailand's Gov't is Submarines.

 

Can you imagine, a submarine surfacing next to you when you are in such a situation?

[mwbrown]

This is the expected result when you have no flood control and no building control.

[heybuz]

21 hours ago, mwbrown said:

This is the expected result when you have no flood control and no building control.

Looks like the house was built on a natural water course.