Heavy flooding in Bangpu industrial estate and other parts of Samut Prakan

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Credit : Samutprakan in Thailand Facebook Page

 

Bangpu industrial estate, in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province, is under a meter of water Sunday, following several hours of heavy overnight rain.

 

All roads in the industrial estate remain impassable, except by trucks. Many cars in the estate are half-submerged.

 

Workers tried to remove the floodwaters from the estate by activating four huge water pumps early this morning, but they said today that, due to the sheer volume of water, it will be 6-7 hours before the estate will be cleared, assuming that there is no more rain today.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/heavy-flooding-in-bangpu-industrial-estate-and-other-parts-of-samut-prakan/

 

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[hotchilli]

No lessons learnt in the art of prevention.

[josephbloggs]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

No lessons learnt in the art of prevention.

Yeah, definitely should prevent it from raining.

[VocalNeal]

Didn't you know? It is a result of a Chinese dam failure in Laos! (What my wife said)

[trainman34014]

6-7 hours of pumping all very well but in many Factories and other buildings everything will be ruined.   Last time this sort of thing happened in 2011 many Factory owners said if it was ever allowed to happen again they would leave the country and take their business elsewhere.   Yingluck then started a 3Billion Baht Wall Project to stop further flooding; do'nt see much wall but the 3 Billion Baht has all vanished !