Spectacular storm up here in Naklua. Anybody missing that old-style Songkram experience, go and stand outside for 5 seconds.

As black as your hat over here on the Darkside, plenty of thunder but no rain........ yet ????

Yes some storm, i do like sitting on the balcony and watching storms

2 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes some storm, i do like sitting on the balcony and watching storms

A gale has just whipped up and is blowing straight onto mine.

30 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

As black as your hat over here on the Darkside, plenty of thunder but no rain........ yet ????

 

Well, it;s absolutely lashing down now. Khao Noi will be the usual mass of water in free flow down to the rail tracks.

 

Luckily I had the family out for the weekly shop at Lotus, South Patts, around mid-day so missed out on getting the groceries soaked in the back of the pick-up.

A troll post trolling about a sexual activity has been removed. 

I think the "rainy" season has arrived early (if I recall, the powers that be said a while ago that it was supposed to start in early May). 

Only took a few minutes to fill my 45 gal "rain can" with the run-off from the roof. Seems to be petering out now though.

I live - when I'm in thailand and not stuck outside - in the darkside. The thunder was so loud few years ago I literally thought a jumbo had crashed down the road and had to get up to see it was true or not.

12 minutes ago, dabhand said:

 

Well, it;s absolutely lashing down now. Khao Noi will be the usual mass of water in free flow down to the rail tracks.

 

Luckily I had the family out for the weekly shop at Lotus, South Patts, around mid-day so missed out on getting the groceries soaked in the back of the pick-up.

It has literally just started here by the lake, SSCC side, as you say lashing down, waiting for the Mrs to get back from Big C in Klang, hope there's no flooding down that way. 

Pattaya Tai for the last hour +, easing off now but the rain keeps coming. Eating gai Sam yang, takes the mind off the car alarms and black sky.

https://www.facebook.com/100038833238090/videos/pcb.442369557067482/442369250400846

Soi Khao Talo about 20 minutes ago.

Soi Batman a few minutes ago.
 

Safe to say that once again the beach is cattle trucked again then ????

When I came to Bangkok I looked for a condominium in a high rise building to have a nice view. I found something high up and I like the view.

And then there was the first thunderstorm. Wow, what an experience. The nice weather view is nice but the thunderstorm view, especially at night, is phenomenal. 

As usual not a cloud in the sky in Hua Hin.........????

Enjoy the spectacle where you can....but please stay safe.............

45 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

https://www.facebook.com/100038833238090/videos/pcb.442369557067482/442369250400846

Soi Khao Talo about 20 minutes ago.

Can't get that one to play ????

He may have taken it down or restricted who can see it.

5 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

He may have taken it down or restricted who can see it.

many are not aware of how to edit their fbk 'audience' settings...  

(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro magnifico

A couple of quite frightening videos on the net.

Nice bangs after 1:00:

 

Bye bye beach:

 

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I live - when I'm in thailand and not stuck outside - in the darkside. The thunder was so loud few years ago I literally thought a jumbo had crashed down the road and had to get up to see it was true or not.

Sometimes they might be 'thunder bolts'...when they hit a street transformer it's a blast

6 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

It has literally just started here by the lake, SSCC side, as you say lashing down, waiting for the Mrs to get back from Big C in Klang, hope there's no flooding down that way. 

555 hope...

49 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Sometimes they might be 'thunder bolts'...when they hit a street transformer it's a blast

I have one over the road from the house.....ooops ????

1 hour ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Sometimes they might be 'thunder bolts'...when they hit a street transformer it's a blast

 

I unplug all of my electronics.  No surge protection here.    

13 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Safe to say that once again the beach is cattle trucked again then ????

Beach, I wonder how much of the new hundreds of tons of sand just shipped in is remaining?

7 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Sometimes they might be 'thunder bolts'...when they hit a street transformer it's a blast

When they hit a tree in my garden it scared the beejeebers out of me. I have had one hit in my garden and one just behind over the years I have lived here. Both damaged a lot of electronics, and the garden one took out the gate motor too. These days I run around unplugging things and sit with doors and windows closed up, not  a little in fear!

There were camels on the beach. I wonder how they reacted to the thunder?

don't forget your kite w/a key on the end...

A couple days before the storm, the Electrical Authority went up soi Khao Noi, replacing the top braces and insulators on all the power poles (and I think they may have strung an additional power cable as well).

I was kind of surprised though when I came home and saw all the new braces - were made of metal ! Looks like steel, but may be aluminum. Either way, they both conduct electricity and probably make good lightning magnets.

So I wasn't really surprised when the storm hit not long after we lost power. Not for long. Then it went out again for a short bit. No idea if there was a lightning strike but the outages weren't that long so I don't think it was a transformer blowing or a line coming down.
Maybe just a surge somewhere flipped a breaker ? (And no, it wasn't just out in my house though I did check my breakers just to be sure. Also discovered that one of my UPS's doesn't work anymore. Annoying.)

So glad I don't live on Soi Batman though ! A lot of people there have built up their floors/ramps so they are almost a meter above street level and the water was almost that high !
They are doing work on a drainage tunnel behind the "Batman" building. It's the width of the soi (2 lanes), divided in the middle, you could drive a car down either side and someone 2 meters (6') tall could walk through there without banging their head on the top. I think it is supposed to be where the water from the ditch in the middle of the Suk is supposed to go. (Right beside the Esso station where they've had the lane blocked off and pumps sitting there for months now). 
Not sure where the water goes from there though. 

If they'd put drainage like that down Khao Noi and Khao Talo, we wouldn't have any flooding problems at all ! Though I suspect the low area along the railway bypass would still turn into a lake every time it rained.