whenever it rains slightly out of season, someone always says "oh, they are seeding the clouds". anyone know if that's the case this last week? btw, the mabprachan reservoir looks apocalyptic right now. if they are seeding these days, they need to up the voltage...

Edited May 4, 201016 yr by Rimmer
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Yeah Thais are taught to think that all things good come from that source but maybe the explanation is a simple as the monsoon season is approaching and it usually rains at that time

I did happen to drive by Maprachan on Sunday and it does look dreadful (feel sorry for all those Toffs who paid high-prices for those "lakefront" and "lakeview" villas the Pattaya property pimps are always slagging off on newbie expatriates...but the funny thing is that there has been city water pressure in the mains the past few weeks (at least in our area) whereas 3-4 weeks ago it was very sporadic.

Keep in mind that the Maprachan Reservoir is far from the Pattaya area's only water supply. There are currently five other reservoirs that supply water to the area with Maprachan being the least used.

There has been about a story per month in the Pattaya Mail talking about water supply issues, all of them saying that Pattaya has more than enough of it to last even through the end of the summer if there were no rain.

Other areas are not so lucky, such as Sattahip, which has already experienced water shortages.

For this area and others including Chanthaburi and Trat, the Navy's royal cloud seeding division has indeed being in the skies, but not in the Pattaya area. They're focusing on other regions that don't have Pattaya's abundance of reservoirs and pipelines.

Keep in mind that the Maprachan Reservoir is far from the Pattaya area's only water supply. There are currently five other reservoirs that supply water to the area with Maprachan being the least used.

There has been about a story per month in the Pattaya Mail talking about water supply issues, all of them saying that Pattaya has more than enough of it to last even through the end of the summer if there were no rain.

Other areas are not so lucky, such as Sattahip, which has already experienced water shortages.

For this area and others including Chanthaburi and Trat, the Navy's royal cloud seeding division has indeed being in the skies, but not in the Pattaya area. They're focusing on other regions that don't have Pattaya's abundance of reservoirs and pipelines.

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I did happen to drive by Maprachan on Sunday and it does look dreadful (feel sorry for all those Toffs who paid high-prices for those "lakefront" and "lakeview" villas the Pattaya property pimps are always slagging off on newbie expatriates...

Yes. The 'toffs' must be feeling suicidal at this temporary loss of lake water.

Huge price crashes on 'lake-view' homes.

Class action against Pattaya property 'pimps'

I don't think.

The benefit of this is of course that fishing is no longer required. Simply walk out and hit them with a stick. (The fish that is..........not the Pattaya Property 'pimps')

Nice rain this morning. And the Maprachan Reservoir? I've seen it almost dried up a couple of years ago, but it seems that this rain season could be better than the ones before.

It's even cool and fresh outside now, what a relief have those dog days.

Did one of those indian dances with a couple of the girls, works every time