Video: Dramatic moment as man on pontoon washed away in floods hits electrical wires

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Tha Wangpha, Nan - Dramatic moment

 

Daily News reported that the effects of tropical storm Mulan continued to affect Thailand yesterday with heavy rain.

 

In Tha Wangpha district of Nan province in the north a man was washed away on a pontoon under a bridge on a swollen river.

 

A video was posted on TikTok under the name 9559ball_khonkaen.

 

A woman shrieks as the pontoon collides with wires after going under a bridge.

 

The man managed to save himself by grabbing a log.  

 

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[Geoffggi]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

The man managed to save himself by grabbing a log.  

Good thinking, pleased to read he survived this crisis in his life .......

[Excel]

9 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

Good thinking, pleased to read he survived this crisis in his life .......

Indeed, so perhaps next time he will understand what a stupid idea it is to go on a raft in a swollen river, but there again perhaps he won't.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Is his name Flash Gordon?

[Fore Man]

My wife and I were in Tha Wang Pha for five weeks ending on 2 Aug.  we saw increasingly heavy afternoon rainfall over that time, but no flooding. These are truly friendly and decent people and it is heart-wrenching to see what befell them.  

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, Excel said:

Indeed, so perhaps next time he will understand what a stupid idea it is to go on a raft in a swollen river, but there again perhaps he won't.

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