Well, that did not go as planned!  I woke up early this morning (house on 3rd Road) with my trash can floating by my bed....????. Took a quick swim down Soi Diana to Beach Road to see how the new drainage / storm sewer held up as well as the beach front....not pretty!  I think Pattaya Bay was gifted some new sand?  Oh well, just a  few more million baht will have things back to square one in a jiffy......maybe? ????????

36 minutes ago, chicowoodduck said:

to see how the new drainage / storm sewer held up

Someone didn't build the storm drain big enough!

you really have got to chuckle. Fred Karno's outfit strikes again. 

From Markland Condo webcam.   You can see the gulleys in the sand created all along the beach.

 

Great photos Chicowoodduck. I am loving all those new water features in Pattaya - Well worth all the months of traffic chaos.

And the brains in City Hall are going to put another lane on BR which can only make the flooding worse....

Utter incompetence!

If you blow up the web cam photo you can see the beach really got hammered....

By reports Jomtien beach will soon be just as beautiful.

Wow, only light rain at my place North of town.... and last night was supposed to be 'dry' due to the end of Buddhist lent.

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Wow, only light rain at my place North of town.... and last night was supposed to be 'dry' due to the end of Buddhist lent.

Dry inside yes..... but very wet out in the early hours in central Patts

8 hours ago, Sametboy2019 said:

Utter incompetence!

Nothing unusual here.....

 

Excellent idea to coat the area next to the beach with concrete. Brilliant, really. Let's build a few more malls there.

I always wonder when I see these pictures from Pattaya and Jomtien beaches, were the sand bags already in place underneath the sand so that the rain simply exposed them and perhaps they show some forward thinking, or were they hurriedly placed there during the storm?

 

As always, all back in place already.

 

 

 

13 minutes ago, TaaSaparot said:

As always, all back in place already.

 

 

 

More news and pictures on Naewna. 

15 hours ago, Sametboy2019 said:

Utter incompetence!

Careful, the hotel online review board may have an account on here !

One should look at who has the contract for replacing the sand to perhaps have some idea as to why the city council are unable to prevent a road right next to the sea flooding.

31 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

One should look at who has the contract for replacing the sand to perhaps have some idea as to why the city council are unable to prevent a road right next to the sea flooding.

Perhaps they wanted the long and uninterrupted expanse of beach but had they included a couple of concrete trenches (with walkover bridges) the rainwater could have been channeled into the sea far more efficiently.

14 hours ago, Guderian said:

were the sand bags already in place underneath the sand 

Yes they are underneath  after many failed attempts to stop the sand being washed away taking the promenade with it..

I think the bags are fUll of concrete.

This year is 2564 in Thailand! Does this not tell you something about how far they have advanced in 2,564 years! Krup! ????  

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Perhaps they wanted the long and uninterrupted expanse of beach but had they included a couple of concrete trenches (with walkover bridges) the rainwater could have been channeled into the sea far more efficiently.

This has been my exact idea for fixing the problem for years...

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

One should look at who has the contract for replacing the sand to perhaps have some idea as to why the city council are unable to prevent a road right next to the sea flooding.

They have spent between 1 and 2 Billion baht in the last 10 years on all the endless beach/beach road work....

Certain people have found their pot of gold under the rainbow.....Its called forever more work on beach road...

 

The promenade was much better before all this work..  

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

They have spent between 1 and 2 Billion baht in the last 10 years on all the endless beach/beach road work....

Certain people have found their pot of gold under the rainbow.....Its called forever more work on beach road...

 

The promenade was much better before all this work..  

And its all away to start again.

7 hours ago, johng said:

I think the bags are fUll of concrete.

I thought it was sand, a lower grade than the stuff on top.

57 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I thought it was sand, a lower grade than the stuff on top.

Looks like concrete to me.

 

https://www.pattayamail.com/featured/pattaya-hit-with-worst-flooding-of-rainy-season-328774

9 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Perhaps they wanted the long and uninterrupted expanse of beach but had they included a couple of concrete trenches (with walkover bridges) the rainwater could have been channeled into the sea far more efficiently.

Or a couple of really nice Plaza type constructions where the Drainage channels could be made as a feature

A nice place to meet with friends and relax over a Beer or a meal.

Would be nice me thinks 

11 hours ago, PatOngo said:

This year is 2564 in Thailand! Does this not tell you something about how far they have advanced in 2,564 years! Krup! ????  

no it's 2563 and has nothing to do with the history of Thailand.

This was the first time it's rained worth mentioning in the darkside where I am this year, still not a lot. If we get proper floods there won't be much left.

 

A real solution would be to put 4 foot rainwater drains out to the sea under the beach, coming out 30m or so from the beachline, every 15-20m, to have enough drainage. There's a hell of a lot of water going to the sea since they don't collect any and the topography is down from Khao Talo towards the sea. Having concreted the entire beachfront does not help.

 

Obviously you'll need to dig it all up and do it properly first.