VIDEO: Jomtien Beach Road collapses due to heavy storms

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Heavy rain and flooding left part of Jomtien Beach Road severely damaged on Wednesday.

 

A video posted on the ASEAN NOW Facebook page showed the sidewalk collapsed under the weight of the excess flood water.

 

Municipal workers and officials could be seen surveying the damaged sections of the road. 

 

Heavy rain on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning lashed Pattaya and the surrounding area for several hours. 

 

The Meteorological Department on Wednesday forecast more rain throughout Thailand over the coming days due to tropical storm Conson expected to move into the South China Sea this week.

 

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[wasabi]

hope that isn't where they buried cables too.

[worgeordie]

Need yet more sand....

regards Worgeordie

[HappyExpat57]

That large sucking sound is music to the ears of the politicians and their buddy contractors.

[bbko]

Is the Pattaya word for flood damage "Ka Ching"?

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

Anyone know where this breakage is to the nearest Jomtien Beach soi?

Edited September 8, 2021 by Kaoboi Bebobp

[huyuli]

15 minutes ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

Anyone know where this breakage is to the nearest Jomtien Beach soi?

Jomtien Palace Hotel

[kotsak]

In other news, the country is ready to venture in space..

[KhunBENQ]

5 minutes ago, huyuli said:

Jomtien Palace Hotel

At the T-section with Soi Watboon.

Obviously Watboon had developed into a raging stream.

Just watch 10 seconds from here:

 

Edited September 8, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[Jeffr2]

The storm drains there always had water gushing out of them after a rain. Flooding the street there.

 

That is some really black water. Terrible.

[PETERTHEEATER]

13 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

The storm drains there always had water gushing out of them after a rain.

Really? That's  amazing......????

[Pravda]

It can't be all that bad in Pattaya as 7/11 still looks open

[PEE TEE]

I hope the airport runways are not made by the same contractors 

[Mickeymaus]

This cannot be the truth. So far this was always a special and pretty unique feature of the Pattaya City beaches. 

[Tich]

Forever making the same substandard shoddy repairs, then expecting a different outcome !

welcome to Amazing Thailand.

ker-ching to all the contractors involved.

[off road pat]

2 hours ago, Victornoir said:

Opposite.
Since the excess water is evacuated at this place, it is important not to put the sand back but on the contrary to maintain and consolidate this passage.

Sarcasm is not your thing.

[pops1]

They have the gall to call the public irresponsible over covid yet they can't even build a footpath   5555

[southcoast]

1 hour ago, kotsak said:

In other news, the country is ready to venture in space..

Think this government is already there, defiantly NOT on this planet.!!.

[Emdog]

On the bright side, they now have a waterfall tourist attraction. I'm just heading down there now to pick up some bananas on Soi that goes away from the beach....

[Pdavies99]

Ah!!  The problem is the trees! Cut them down!

[Nojohndoe]

Rinse and repeat...

Something I have never understood in Thailand is the absence of or minimal storm water reticulation in a country that annually experiences monsoon downpours. Major highways are so often made  flat and level with no designed channels to take water away and the grass verges allowed build up above the  road surface which results in the road itself becoming a canal until some point where the water finds an exit. Extreme hazard at night.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Victornoir said:

Opposite.
Since the excess water is evacuated at this place, it is important not to put the sand back but on the contrary to maintain and consolidate this passage.

Water has a habit of running downhill to the lowest point... that's where a bl**dy great drain should be located to take it away somewhere it can't do any harm.

And on the way lots of larger drains so flooding can't take place.

[Gold Star]

When I lived near there, I watched them work for many months building this elaborate and expensive storm runoff T-junction. There was a large underground concrete drain enclosure bunker taking all the water from beach road and from the street adjoining it at this T intersection.

 

The overflowing manhole cover in the middle of the intersection indicates a blockage to the enclosure from the intersecting street storm drain.  The pressure must have worked around the underground side of the costly structure, washing it away.

 

So glad I don't have to put up with months of construction again and traffic jams, but feel sorry for those that will be impacted by this result of poor engineering and construction.

 

 

[Jeffr2]

1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Really? That's  amazing......????

It was the only drain cover I'd see doing this during my walks up and down beach road.

[Sydebolle]

To flood a beach road running parallel to the beach a mere few metres ........ worth a architectural OSCAR! 

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, Pravda said:

It can't be all that bad in Pattaya as 7/11 still looks open

The video is taken long after the disastrous streams and the 7/11 is elevated and aside from the downstream.

[Keesters]

Jomtien Beach Road collapses due to heavy storms

 

Should read 

 

Jomtien Beach Road collapses during rain storm due to bad construction

 

[mahtin]

They'll be blaming the Cambodian workers.

[2umich]

I was always wondering, why those protesters who want to remove government, never try to keep accountable local administrations responsible for road repair, as corruption on local level is much more obvious.

[geisha]

They had huge road works going on a year back with the biggest pipes I’ve ever seen. What a huge waste of money and time . Just look at the pavements caving in everywhere.  That’s Thai workmanship for you. Same in most condos.