Residents of  Soi Luang Phaeng 6 removing sandbags from a drain that prevented floodwater from flowing out. The Thai headline says, “Sandbags again.” Photos: Amarin TV

 

TNR Staff

 

RESIDENTS of a neighbourhood in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district that has been flooded since September 10 with the floodwater now reeking today (Oct. 2) found that sandbags had been stuffed into a key drain, Amarin TV said.

 

People living in Soi Luang Phaeng 6 said they started checking the drains after hearing that sandbags were found clogging one of them in a nearby alley.

 

Upon pulling out the first sandbag stuffed in this drain they found over hundred more in there. Once all were removed the floodwater started flowing out.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/10/02/after-weeks-of-flooding-lat-krabang-residents-find-sandbags-stuffed-in-a-drain/

 

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Not sure of the mentality of some people. Why in the F would anyone stuff the drains with sandbags like this? It certainly wasn't an accident. Seems someone wanted that area to flood for personal reasons. 

3 hours ago, Dan O said:

...Seems someone wanted...

Famous quote is to  not attribute to maliciousness that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Some one had to get rid of a hundred sandbags easily is my guess.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

found that sandbags had been stuffed into a key drain

Terrorist act .

12 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Some one had to get rid of a hundred sandbags easily is my guess.

Why not just empty them then ?

Could be some developer wants the area cheap.

4 hours ago, Dan O said:

Not sure of the mentality of some people. Why in the F would anyone stuff the drains with sandbags like this? It certainly wasn't an accident. Seems someone wanted that area to flood for personal reasons. 

Maybe someone that lived in the area the water ran off too !

This happened in 2011 too.  Also the opposite, raising sluice gates that had been activated to stop water draining away.  Just a case of nimby syndrome, water wise.

I call that Thai Style 

1 hour ago, IAMHERE said:

Famous quote is to  not attribute to maliciousness that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Some one had to get rid of a hundred sandbags easily is my guess.

Yeah, they stashed them there after the last flood so they wouldn't need to make new ones. They just forgot where they put them.

Probably not ' stuffed ' into drain just washed there by heavy floodwater.

 

Where we live , Three concrete weirs ( very heavy ) completely destroyed and washed away by flood waters coming off the nearby ridge. Water is very heavy and moving a sandbag is no big deal. Just try lifting a 25 liter water container....heavy . 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Upon pulling out the first sandbag stuffed in this drain they found over hundred more in there. Once all were removed the floodwater started flowing out

Amazing Thailand.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

...found that sandbags had been stuffed into a drain...

During the 2011 floods this was a common practice in the Bangkok neighborhood that I lived in. When I asked why, it was explained this way. If the sewer drains become overcome the water will often backup into people's houses. By blocking the drain, it forces the water elsewhere where it becomes someone else's problem. As Trink would have wrote, TIT.

Note to BMA. time to check drains for blockages is when they are dry.

Ugh! What a nasty thing to do. Surely stuffing sandbags into the drains will not help the flooding but will only make the flooding worse.

There is some very simple protocol involved in flood and even rainy season preparation. Just like I clean my drains, and the concrete channel next to the house, that the rain and washing machine, etc drain into, every channel, drain and water control device needs to be inspected and made to run at optimal performance, before the rains come. This is not rocket science. This is common sense and very basic stuff.

35 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

This is common sense and very basic stuff.

Where we come from.

2 hours ago, Denim said:

Water is very heavy and moving a sandbag is no big deal. Just try lifting a 25 liter water container....heavy . 

Try lifting a sandbag that's saturated with water.

2 hours ago, Denim said:

Probably not ' stuffed ' into drain just washed there by heavy floodwater.

 

Where we live , Three concrete weirs ( very heavy ) completely destroyed and washed away by flood waters coming off the nearby ridge. Water is very heavy and moving a sandbag is no big deal. Just try lifting a 25 liter water container....heavy . 

25kg, to be precise.

7 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

Why not just empty them then ?

Stupidity would explain that too ? ????

 

2 hours ago, Denim said:

Where we come from.

Well, yes. Our cultures teach us to question authority, not believe everything we are told, and be curious about the world. At least some of us have those qualities. I see many back there who are lock step, always getting in line, and always believing most of what they are told. 

2 hours ago, taotoo said:

5 hours ago, Denim said:

Just try lifting a 25 liter water container....heavy . 

25kg, to be precise.

25kg to be approximate.  To be precise, the weight of the container would have to be included also!

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

25kg to be approximate.  To be precise, the weight of the container would have to be included also!

I assumed they'd short-fill it!

8 hours ago, Denim said:

Probably not ' stuffed ' into drain just washed there by heavy floodwater.

 

Where we live , Three concrete weirs ( very heavy ) completely destroyed and washed away by flood waters coming off the nearby ridge. Water is very heavy and moving a sandbag is no big deal. Just try lifting a 25 liter water container....heavy . 

25 kg without the container.  1 cubic metre of water is 1,000 litres and weighs 1 ton.

 

I have a crate for 12 x 2 litre drinking water bottles which we fill from the 3,000 litre storage tank. I can carry the crate of empties or 4 full bottles, 2 in each hand. My 18 year old son can carry the full crate.

9 hours ago, Denim said:

Probably not ' stuffed ' into drain just washed there by heavy floodwater.

 

Where we live , Three concrete weirs ( very heavy ) completely destroyed and washed away by flood waters coming off the nearby ridge. Water is very heavy and moving a sandbag is no big deal. Just try lifting a 25 liter water container....heavy . 

Kind of hard to wash 100 sand bags down a drain that has a cover on it

3 hours ago, billd766 said:

25 kg without the container.  1 cubic metre of water is 1,000 litres and weighs 1 ton.

 

I have a crate for 12 x 2 litre drinking water bottles which we fill from the 3,000 litre storage tank. I can carry the crate of empties or 4 full bottles, 2 in each hand. My 18 year old son can carry the full crate.

Light as a feather !!

 

Reminds me of a favorite line from one of my favorite movies, The Leather Boys (1964)

 

Dear Charles Atlas , I have completed the course , now send me the muscles . 

On 10/3/2022 at 3:38 AM, Dan O said:

Not sure of the mentality of some people. Why in the F would anyone stuff the drains with sandbags like this? It certainly wasn't an accident. Seems someone wanted that area to flood for personal reasons. 

Probably just the easiest and most convenient way for someone to get them out of their way at the end of the last rainy season! Most Thais, I think, live for today, rarely thinking ahead or about the consequences of their actions.