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

[Crossy]

With the river now about 1.3m below my "worry" level it's time to start cleaning up ???? 

 

Unlike the mower, the pressure washer seems to have survived despite doing a passable impression of a submarine.

 

It's going to see some action over the weekend.

[Crossy]

The risk of flooding here is officially over.

 

Removing the sandbags was rather quicker than putting them in ???? 

 

 

 

 

[lujanit]

There must hundreds of thousands sandbags to dispose of.  Where do they go?  Some landfill I guess.  The old lady over the road kept the sand bags from 2011 up till she sadly died a couple of months ago.  Her family did a clean out putting the sand (the bags had rotted away).  Our back door which was ruined in 2011 she took and is still there.  I have no idea what she intended to do with it.

 

Then again a lot of Thai's are hoarders, my woman included.  When she is not here I throw useless things into the garbage.  She has never noticed.

[Crossy]

Madam "liberated" a fair number of the bags from the road.

 

The sand will get used to improve the rather dense clay soil in the garden. Why pay for sand when you can get it for free

 

[lujanit]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

The sand will get used to improve the rather dense clay soil in the garden. Why pay for sand when you can get it for free

That is about the best use for sand.  I doubt they are going to miss a few (hundred?) bags.  I would not be surprised if you asked the people who removed them they would gladly deliver a truckload to you for free.

[Crossy]

One last post before this thread drifts off into the sunset.

 

There is/was a large pile of sand left over from bag filling located directly across the road from our gate.

 

The village head came on the speakers saying if anyone wanted some to help themselves, free!

 

Madam is a sucker for "free" so she and a couple of friends spent the morning with wheelbarrows making a significant dent in said pile. Much soil improvement in the works (apparently, it's the "wrong type" of sand for concrete).

 

[degrub]

I think you need sand + gypsum to break up heavy clay soils. Sand by itself just gets swallowed up.

[Crossy]

5 minutes ago, degrub said:

I think you need sand + gypsum to break up heavy clay soils. Sand by itself just gets swallowed up.

 

Don't worry, Madam is on the case.

 

I expect to be visiting the farm shop later/tomorrow to load up with (and pay for ???? ) bags of mysterious unguents (formulation and purpose unknown).

 

She does the gardening; I go out and earn the $$$ to pay for the gardening ???? 

[degrub]

As it has always been, and so it shall always be….????

[Jai Dee]

Glad to see a happy ending to this thread (this year)... it was touch and go there for a while...