Heavy monsoon rains leave teachers and ambulance drivers in trouble in NW

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Sanook Thai Caption: "Karma dirt track" (a play on the misery caused by past bad deeds and dirt tracks)

 

Sanook reported from Umphang district in Tak, NW Thailand where heavy rains from the latest monsoon storms have turned some routes into horrendous experiences for drivers.

 

This is especially true for teachers and ambulance drivers who have to get through what are deep dirt tracks gouged into the earth.

 

In one stretch that is just 60 kilometers long it takes six hours to get through.

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Narong, a teacher, said he was delivering exam papers and only a four wheel drive could make it.

Apart from that you'd have to have a dirt bike. Forget cars. 

 

Asked if he was tired he said "very" but at least he felt appreciated. 

 

Parts of Kanchanaburi in the west and Mae Hong Son in the far north west were also named by the media as suffering from very heavy rain in the monsoon season. 

 

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[2baht]

No messing around there, now that's bogged!

[Nicholas Paul KNIGHT]

No-one heard of bull dozers then 

 

[rudi49jr]

Wow, looks like some of the worst bush tracks I have seen in Africa in the rainy season.

[arithai12]

Kudos teacher and ambulance driver.

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, Nicholas Paul KNIGHT said:

No-one heard of bull dozers then 

 

A bulldozer cut the path through the jungle to make a dirt track.. 

What do they expect?