Luxury home flooded in NE - owners had fled Bangkok now this!

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported on a shared post on the fan page of "Tew Tew Chew Chew" (ติ๋วติ้ว ชิว ชิว) that featured pictures of a 15 million baht luxury home under flood waters in Khao Yai, Nakhon Ratchasima. 

 

The poster said they had left Bangkok because of flooding but now this had happened. 

 

They noted that nothing in this life is for sure!

 

Sanook reported that three districts and six sub-districts in the area had been hit by flooding that had inundated 397 homes. 

 

Particularly hard hit was Pak Chong. 

 

Much of the outlying areas of Bangkok were under water for months in the great flood of late 2011, notes Thaivisa.  

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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Looks like Disney lost a princess castle.  15 Million THB for it, and yet 15 million THB would get them a cracker box condo in Bangkok.  Something is wrong with the pricing in this country.  Sucks they lost the house, be a major rehab project after the waters subside.

Build on high ground not low....

2 minutes ago, petermik said:

Build on high ground not low....

Building a house next to the river seemed like such a good idea.

I wondered why nobody else had ever built there.

After 2011 floodings we moved from Nonthaburi to Khao Yai but on a huphill side and certainly not close to a river. 

It is why I chose a Penthouse Condo with the elevated garages and not an underground one.  Yes I also moved from Nonthaburi to the Sathon Area, lived up country in Udon before that, but even with the build up for the house, the road would still flood and so would everything around.  Folks use to build houses that were elevated many feet off of the ground, but over time they have now enclosed the area below and use it as living space. When the floods come they loose whatever they can not move up to the top.  Floods are not a joke, but Mother Nature enjoys keeping you on your toes.

9 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Looks like Disney lost a princess castle.  15 Million THB for it, and yet 15 million THB would get them a cracker box condo in Bangkok.  Something is wrong with the pricing in this country.  Sucks they lost the house, be a major rehab project after the waters subside.

my thoughts too, property in various areas of Thailand is way over priced 

 

I laugh at some of the new condos being built around pattaya these last few years, a living room the size of my front hall back home, 30sqm 1 bedroom, the TV is about 2m from your face with just enough room to fit a small table, just as well TV's are now flatscreen and not those huge CRT based TV's from a few years back, there would be no room for it and they want nearly 4m baht for these tiny flats 

Precisely why houses used to be built on stilts but this seems to have been forgotten.

 

Nice romantic moment whit girlfriend, put fireplace on and listen "Sade" from speakers! 

 

 

9 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

 

Nice romantic moment whit girlfriend, put fireplace on and listen "Sade" from speakers! 

 

 

Now you're talking!  I love Sade.  Had all her LPs, yes vinyl, back in the day. ????

 

They should advertise quickly

Waterfront property complete with fairy princess tower

Water views from ALL rooms  

A little research would have resolved this.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Luxury home flooded in NE - owners had fled Bangkok now this

 

Some days you just can't win...but...It can always get worse....

 

 

 

How clever to build a 15M castle on lowlands.

 

Now, learn from Europe:

 

Greetings from 45m above sea level.

Anyone heard of Marlow on the Thames river in UK ?. Fifteen million pounds will buy you a nice riverside property, it also floods...

1 hour ago, PJPom said:

Anyone heard of Marlow on the Thames river in UK ?. Fifteen million pounds will buy you a nice riverside property, it also floods...

Yeah I stayed at a hotel right beside the river a few years ago and looking out from the bar at the land towards the river I thought this would be a great place for a house . Then noticed the land was only about 2ft above the river level and it wasn’t even raining at that time . 

4 hours ago, Thailand said:

A little research would have resolved this.

Dead right, If I'm considering a move I always check it out in the foulest of weather.

Any rich person who builds a large mansion like the one that got flooded gets

no sympathy from me. More money than brains is the description I have for people

anywhere on the world who forget to check on critical things like where is the

water mark in the area for a 100 to 200 year flood.                                                                                 Checking with some old

locals would usually supply that kind of information if it is not at the land office

near by.  Thailand is mostly a flat country, so people in the hilly area of Kao Yai

should have a few higher places to build their huge mansions.

Geezer