The Bangkok River Level Thread 2022 - Please post your river level photos

[DavisH]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

Pak Kret local high, looks pretty close to last night ???? 

 

The tide is dropping now...There seems to be a few hours lag between high tide at the mouth of the river and pak kret. King tides are at the end of the month, so hopefully the runoff from up north will have passed by then. 

[Crossy]

@DavisH

Bathroom drains have a bin-bag covering them with a sandbag on top ???? 

 

The delay from the tide tables vs Pak Kret is around 4 hours as near as makes no difference, then another hour delay to our location.

 

Meanwhile we actually got slightly less water in the house last night, not enough to turn on the pumps ???? Long may it continue.

 

I missed the actual low but Pak Kret level is well down so hopefully today's highs will continue at similar levels to the last few.

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

@DavisH

Bathroom drains have a bin-bag covering them with a sandbag on top ???? 

 

The delay from the tide tables vs Pak Kret is around 4 hours as near as makes no difference, then another hour delay to our location.

 

Meanwhile we actually got slightly less water in the house last night, not enough to turn on the pumps ???? Long may it continue.

 

I missed the actual low but Pak Kret level is well down so hopefully today's highs will continue at similar levels to the last few.

Excellent news Crossy.

[Crossy]

Meanwhile, we have another refugee from the flooding.

 

He's a juvenile Pipe Snake (Cylindrophis jodiae), harmless. 

 

He was actually inside a water pump, lucky not to get minced!

 

[DavisH]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

@DavisH

Bathroom drains have a bin-bag covering them with a sandbag on top ???? 

 

The delay from the tide tables vs Pak Kret is around 4 hours as near as makes no difference, then another hour delay to our location.

 

Meanwhile we actually got slightly less water in the house last night, not enough to turn on the pumps ???? Long may it continue.

 

I missed the actual low but Pak Kret level is well down so hopefully today's highs will continue at similar levels to the last few.

Good luck with the sandbag! During 2011, we got about 30 cm of water in the house. We had a huge tv cabinet dowhstairs. We wrapped in in plastice hoping to save it. The water managed to topple it! It was destroyed. Water is a pretty powerful thing, even though it wasn;t flowing at all in my house. 

[Crossy]

Local high at Pak Kret.

 

[sidgy]

Looks like its getting slightly better. Hope the worst is over for you.

 

[Crossy]

43 minutes ago, sidgy said:

Looks like its getting slightly better. Hope the worst is over for you.

 

One can but hope, right now it's not actually getting any worse, but there are high tides due at the end of the month.

 

Madam says the big dams (Bhumibol and Sirikit) have reduced discharge to let the water from the north "go past". I'm not sure just how much credence to apply but it can't all be misinformation.

 

[sidgy]

53 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Madam says the big dams (Bhumibol and Sirikit) have reduced discharge to let the water from the north "go past". I'm not sure just how much credence to apply but it can't all be misinformation.

yeah, i remember 2011, many announcements how we not going to be flooded as this and that all being managed even as the waater was rising around our feet haha

[Pooreye]

Wife told me that in 2011 the huge Phumipon dam was brimming early october, and had to open the gates around oct 10th. And that was the death knell for the already flooded southern lowlands when that water mass arrived later. Maybe you longtimers remember it differently? Today I read it is at 84% capacity, so some room left so far????

[Crossy]

Last night's high at Pak Kret

 

 

And this morning's low

 

 

This is the dryest the garden has been since Monday

 

 

The calm before the storm???

 

[lujanit]

I have been stymied.  The Village head has decreed that the village will not flood.  I tried to order sandbags and was told it was not necessary.  Considering the highest tides won't happen until the 28 -31 Oct I am not so confident.  The water from the north was predicted to hit BKK from the 16th onwards.  I really hope I am wrong.

 

I tried arguing that if the canal overflows during the spring tides, it is very high already, we will be flooded out.  Then again I am a stupid farang.

Edited October 13, 2022 by lujanit

[Crossy]

8 minutes ago, lujanit said:

Then again I am a stupid farang.

 

This t-shirt I have ???? 

 

And when it all goes pear-shaped it somehow becomes our fault! ???? 

[Crossy]

Pak Kret seems to have peaked (or is at least stable).

 

 

But ...

 

 

Cue the "Jaws" theme ...

[Crossy]

Pak Kret definitely on the way down towards the mid-tide dip.

 

[Crossy]

Not us, Salaya apparently.

 

 

 

[Jai Dee]

22 hours ago, Pooreye said:

Wife told me that in 2011 the huge Phumipon dam was brimming early october, and had to open the gates around oct 10th. And that was the death knell for the already flooded southern lowlands when that water mass arrived later. Maybe you longtimers remember it differently? Today I read it is at 84% capacity, so some room left so far????

True... Bhumibol (pronounced Phumipon) is currently at 85% and Sirikit is at 70% capacity.

The figures in the table below are in million cubic metres.

 

 

 

[Crossy]

Local mid-tide low at Pak Kret.

 

It's actually been pretty level all afternoon.

 

 

The level at the house has only fallen by a couple of inches, so we are hoping that the next high doesn't overwhelm our sand bags (it's supposed to be 0.4m lower at the sea).

 

[DavisH]

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

Not us, Salaya apparently.

 

 

 

I suspect this is a video from 2011?? Was central plaza there in 2011? I drove to mahidol Uni yeterday, and did not detect any problem furher up. My son also went to central salaya yesterday, but took a back road apparently. The road appears clear on google maps at the moment. 

[alien365]

5 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I suspect this is a video from 2011?? Was central plaza there in 2011? I drove to mahidol Uni yeterday, and did not detect any problem furher up. My son also went to central salaya yesterday, but took a back road apparently. The road appears clear on google maps at the moment. 

It wasn't there in 2011. I've only been here since 2012 and I remember it being built. They closed the main road a few days back due to the flooding from the river so it must have been around that time. 

[alien365]

1 minute ago, alien365 said:

It wasn't there in 2011. I've only been here since 2012 and I remember it being built. They closed the main road a few days back due to the flooding. Its not Salaya though on further inspection as central Salaya doesn't have a Robinson inside, and homepro is not before it, Thai watsadu is. 

 

[DavisH]

1 minute ago, alien365 said:

It wasn't there in 2011. I've only been here since 2012 and I remember it being built. They closed the main road a few days back due to the flooding from the river so it must have been around that time. 

I know there is flooding at the tah chin river bridge, but that is very far from central salaya. I don't see reports of flooding around the shopping center. This photo is at the bridge, the water is obviously not very deep, unlike the video posted here. 

[alien365]

3 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I know there is flooding at the tah chin river bridge, but that is very far from central salaya. I don't see reports of flooding around the shopping center. This photo is at the bridge, the water is obviously not very deep, unlike the video posted here. 

I tried to edit my post but did it wrong. The video was not from Salaya. Homepro is past the big sorting office Bridge, not this close. 

[Crossy]

Here are at "high tide" Pak Kret. I don't think we can really say accurately when "high" is with these double-hump tides, the level has been pretty constant for a couple of hours.

 

So, it's more a guide as to when the water will be "up".

 

 

And an earlier one.

 

 

My problem is that our sump-pump isn't automatic, so I can't go to bed until the level goes down a bit ???? 

 

The dogs are keeping me company and saving me from any vicious floating plastic bags before they have chance to attack!!

 

They are chihuahuas of course ???? 

[DavisH]

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

Here are at "high tide" Pak Kret. I don't think we can really say accurately when "high" is with these double-hump tides, the level has been pretty constant for a couple of hours.

 

So, it's more a guide as to when the water will be "up".

 

 

And an earlier one.

 

I don't think the water has actual hit the sign yet has it? Hopefully it has stablised and reached its peak, but that depends on any more increase in release rates from the dams. Once my house got flooded in 2011, it took 6 weeks before the water had dropped below the floor level (and we had only 30-40 cms of water  in the house). There ar elower high tides over the next few days so that should help the water get to the gulf faster. 

[Crossy]

Flooding? We don't care about no flooding! ???? 

 

[SkyNets]

Anybody have a link to a live flood map, cant seem to find anything, thanks

Edited October 14, 2022 by SkyNets

[Crossy]

5 minutes ago, SkyNets said:

Anybody have a link to a live flood map, cant seem to find anything, thanks

 

Try this site for a start http://wmsc.rid.go.th/

 

http://water.rid.go.th/flood/news/สถานการณ์น้ำสำหรับผู้บริหาร (13 ต.ค.65).pdf 

 

You will need a Thai reader / Google translate.

 

 

[Crossy]

A quick update.

 

The level is on a general (slow) downwards trend at present, hopefully it will remain that way. There's still a bunch of water from the north on its way and big tides at the end of the month.

 

I doubt we are out of the woods yet ???? 

 

Meanwhile, we have mud, lots of mud ???? 

 

Once the water retreats for good is this mud going to be fertile or horribly toxic? We've never flooded this much before so how well will Madam's garden recover?

 

[ThailandRyan]

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

A quick update.

 

The level is on a general (slow) downwards trend at present, hopefully it will remain that way. There's still a bunch of water from the north on its way and big tides at the end of the month.

 

I doubt we are out of the woods yet ???? 

 

Meanwhile, we have mud, lots of mud ???? 

 

Once the water retreats for good is this mud going to be fertile or horribly toxic? We've never flooded this much before so how well will Madam's garden recover?

 

Guess when the vines start moving on there own and the koi fish grow a 3rd eye in the top of there heads you will have your answer....as always stay safe.  We escaped to the house in Southern HH/Pranburi.  Friends in Phuket are under water near Phuket town. Have not seen that in many years.

Edited October 16, 2022 by ThailandRyan