Hua Hin or Phuket?

[habuspasha]

I just noticed a recent Aseannow post called Phuket Rising Seas--Impact highlighting https://medium.com/@jaidar3/phuket-and-rising-seas-9682ace67890 with numerous maps showing flood levels in Phuket at various stags of global sea rise.  I called attention to this problem for Hua Hin, Bangkok, and other areas of Thailand after the publication of interactive flood level maps by a scientific nonprofit called Climate Central near me in Princeton NJ.  (https://www.climatecentral.org/) a couple of years ago.  How quickly we forget.  I wondered then how oblivious people seemed to be in seeking coastal land and sea-side homes, and here I am doing the very same thing.

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, habuspasha said:

I have more confidence in her driving ability than she does.  I just had to curb a common tendency for new drivers (and some old ones) to follow too closely.  She's the one afraid of twists and hills in Phuket.  Of course no one finds it easy to do something they don't want to do.

I love the back road through the mountain area from Rawai to Kata, through Nai Harn.  I like to ride around the small lake there and get a bite off of one of the food carts or from one of the small restaurants by the hotel, then up and around and into Kata before dropping down into the flats.  I do like watching the ocean from the hilltop lookout from where you can see the entire coastline of Kata, Karon, and Patong.

[Yellowtail]

4 hours ago, habuspasha said:

I just noticed a recent Aseannow post called Phuket Rising Seas--Impact highlighting https://medium.com/@jaidar3/phuket-and-rising-seas-9682ace67890 with numerous maps showing flood levels in Phuket at various stags of global sea rise.  I called attention to this problem for Hua Hin, Bangkok, and other areas of Thailand after the publication of interactive flood level maps by a scientific nonprofit called Climate Central near me in Princeton NJ.  (https://www.climatecentral.org/) a couple of years ago.  How quickly we forget.  I wondered then how oblivious people seemed to be in seeking coastal land and sea-side homes, and here I am doing the very same thing.

Yes, only fools are buying property on the coasts.

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Yes, only fools are buying property on the coasts.

That's why I was told to build an Ark...wait that was Noah.