12 provinces warned of flash floods

BANGKOK: -- The Meteorological Department Monday warned residents of 12 provinces to brace themselves for heavy rains and possible flash floods due to an influence of a monsoon wind.

The department said the southwest monsoon over the Andaman and Gulf of Thailand would unleash heavy rains in Mae Hong Son, Chiang Rai, Tak, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Chanthaburi, Trat, Chumphon, Ranong, Phang Nga and Phuket.

-- The Nation 2008-05-05

Cyclone Nargis weakened, heavy rains still continue in Thailand

BANGKOK: -- Cyclone Nargis killed over 350 persons in Myanmar and left a train of devastation on the weekend but was downgraded Sunday and has weakened to a low pressure storm, according to weather officials, but some areas in Thailand will see heavy rainfall Monday, according to the latest announcement issued from the Thai Meteorological Department.

The announcement said the cyclone had weakened to low pressure system but heavy downpours were still expected in some scattered areas throughout the country.

Flash floods remain possible on Monday and Tuesday the announcement said.

Waves in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand are predicted, as high as two to three meters and small boats in the Andaman Sea are advised to stay ashore until Tuesday.

According to Myanmar state television channel MRTV, at least 351 people died and nearly 100,000 persons were left homeless after Cyclone Nargis battered southern Myanmar on Friday and Saturday.

--TNA 2008-05-05

My husband's cousin in Lang Suan, Amphur Phatoe in Chumphon was hit by a flash flood last night, about 2 feet deep in his house.

According to Myanmar state television channel MRTV, at least 351 people died

it is a fair bit worse than that

Nearly 4000 people were killed and thousands were missing in two of Burma's devastated cyclone regions, state television reported today, a dramatic increase in the toll from Saturday's storm.

"The confirmed number is 3934 dead, 41 injured and 2879 missing within the Yangon (Rangoon) and Irrawaddy divisions," MRTV reported as aid agencies said hundreds of thousands of people were without shelter and drinking water in the military-ruled South-East Asian country.

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and worse

Myanmar's military government has a provisional death toll of 10,000 from this weekend's devastating cyclone, with another 3,000 missing, a diplomat said on Monday after a briefing from Foreign Minister Nyan Win.

"The basic message was that they believe the provisional death toll was about 10,000 with 3000 missing," a diplomat present at the meeting told Reuters in Bangkok.

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