Flood Warnings 2011

[khunphil]

Nobody has mentioned it, but I would like to say that the river is on the rise and has been midnight.... I would like to mention it , but I won't....... Nobody has mentioned it, but its beginning to look like another "here we go again" situations...... but I won't mention it.

Thr river reading at midnight 3.24m .... the river reading at 9AM ..... I don't know either ,,,,,,, somebody asleep at the wheel...but its 4.38 +

G

It should be 3.38 ;-) and it is 3.41 now. I am waiting for a +15 cm / h to worry. This looks "normal" to me;-) .. hope I am not wrong.

Philippe

I wish I could read Thai properly..... which river is this? It is not the Ping, but could run into the Ping and cause trouble. http://www.hydro-1.c...&rivercode=0607

It is critical!

Both river leads to Lamphun, this is already critical there, you are right, but not in Chiangmai this time. Then go to the river Ping near Pasang... south-west of Lamphun.

Philippe

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Can anyone tell me if the ring roads are open to the Super Hwy?

Yes, open. Everything is clear, not even wet anymore. Just the underpass at Aom Muang / Pa Daed is still closed as of yesterday, but I didn't see any flooding anymore.

So all is clear.

[happysanook]

Nobody has mentioned it, but I would like to say that the river is on the rise and has been midnight.... I would like to mention it , but I won't....... Nobody has mentioned it, but its beginning to look like another "here we go again" situations...... but I won't mention it.

Thr river reading at midnight 3.24m .... the river reading at 9AM ..... I don't know either ,,,,,,, somebody asleep at the wheel...but its 4.38 +

G

It should be 3.38 ;-) and it is 3.41 now. I am waiting for a +15 cm / h to worry. This looks "normal" to me;-) .. hope I am not wrong.

Philippe

I wish I could read Thai properly..... which river is this? It is not the Ping, but could run into the Ping and cause trouble. http://www.hydro-1.c...&rivercode=0607

It is critical!

Both river leads to Lamphun, this is already critical there, you are right, but not in Chiangmai this time. Then go to the river Ping near Pasang... south-west of Lamphun.

Philippe

Slammin' rain again in ban hong, lamphun (80km S of CM)...don't know which direction it's headed, but it's coming down hard.

[nikster]

With Phillipe here if I read the tea leaves correctly

San sai was going up while nawarat was atoll going down, now nawarat is going up but San sai is already going down again.

[dingdongrb]

Can anyone tell me if the ring roads are open to the Super Hwy?

Yes, open. Everything is clear, not even wet anymore. Just the underpass at Aom Muang / Pa Daed is still closed as of yesterday, but I didn't see any flooding anymore.

So all is clear.

Thx WTK.....let's hope they stay that way.....

BTW, Thursday Morning when I drove past Global House I was thinking, that place sure has had it rough these past few years. First that fire and now the flooding.... I wonder if they're making out with the insurance pay offs???

[rebo]

BTW, Thursday Morning when I drove past Global House I was thinking, that place sure has had it rough these past few years. First that fire and now the flooding.... I wonder if they're making out with the insurance pay offs???

Global House wasn't flooded inside. No damages. They simply laid a brick wall at their doors when water started rising.

Edited October 2, 2011 by rebo

[Gonzo the Face]

BTW, Thursday Morning when I drove past Global House I was thinking, that place sure has had it rough these past few years. First that fire and now the flooding.... I wonder if they're making out with the insurance pay offs???

Global House wasn't flooded inside. No damages. They simply laid a brick wall at their doors when water started rising.

gee wonder where they got the bricks in such a hurry

[Gonzo the Face]

Need some expert help here.....and if we have anything on TV its experts

Here are two links located as they say at Narrawat Bridge

Do you see a difference and both supposed to be real time , or within the hour

http://hydrology.rid.go.th/wmsc/cctvsamsen.htm

http://www.hydro-1.com/index.php?id=61&rivercode=0602

Maybe its so simple and only my mind is fogged up

It appears to me that one reads 3.42 at 1300 hrs

And the other in real time reads less then one metre....... The red and white marker on the right, is it indicating that you must add 2m to the water level shown???

[chiang mai]

BTW, Thursday Morning when I drove past Global House I was thinking, that place sure has had it rough these past few years. First that fire and now the flooding.... I wonder if they're making out with the insurance pay offs???

Global House wasn't flooded inside. No damages. They simply laid a brick wall at their doors when water started rising.

gee wonder where they got the bricks in such a hurry

Have seen lots of shops/businesses on Chan Klan doing the same, two hours to flood time and the owners out there mixing up cement with a supply of blocks from the back oh his van.

[Tywais]

http://hydrology.rid.go.th/wmsc/cctvsamsen.htm

http://www.hydro-1.com/index.php?id=61&rivercode=0602

Maybe its so simple and only my mind is fogged up

It appears to me that one reads 3.42 at 1300 hrs

The CCTV one says it is at the Royal Pier Road so perhaps not the Narawat Bridge. Have no idea where the Royal Pier Road is though.

A bit larger video of the CCTV. http://thaitvnews.blogspot.com/2011/09/cctv_28.html

[Gonzo the Face]

http://hydrology.rid.go.th/wmsc/cctvsamsen.htm

http://www.hydro-1.com/index.php?id=61&rivercode=0602

Maybe its so simple and only my mind is fogged up

It appears to me that one reads 3.42 at 1300 hrs

The CCTV one says it is at the Royal Pier Road so perhaps not the Narawat Bridge. Have no idea where the Royal Pier Road is though.

Ahaaa

so I was given some confused information

Tywais according to an earlier post I think the Royal Pier Road is in Lampun, or was it Lampang....... one of the two...

Thanks for clearing that up ..... thought I was going off the deep end

G

a late thought..... where did you see Royal Pier Road on the link????

Edited October 2, 2011 by Gonzo the Face

[ThaiWx]

Glad to hear you're all drying out some up there! I was supposed to fly in last week, but thought better of it. Now I'm debating going Wednesday, and probably just staying in the old town. Sounds like that will be right in the aftermath of whatever Nesat leaves . . . any thoughts on whether that's likely to affect airport to inner moat area (specifically getting from one to the other)?

That section of town seems to hold up well during the floods (airport to inner moat) and you should be o.k. edit: as long as you stay up on Mahidol. Thipanet does flood and get difficult.

Thipanet floods? That's pretty far from the river . . . the flooding doesn't cover all the way over to the river, does it?

It was flooded yesterday about 200m or so from the airport intersection. Surprised me because I've never seen it flood there. On my motorcycle heading toward the airport intersection and had to get near the oncoming traffic side where the road is higher to get through..

Edited October 2, 2011 by ThaiWx

[Tywais]

a late thought..... where did you see Royal Pier Road on the link????

It's the header of the CCTV video in Thai - ท่าน้ำกรมชลประทานสามเสน

[adamchiangmai]

My house is in the Changklan area (M.Weejangton) just short of the bridge of airport highway and mae ping.this time it was 25 cm higher than the "century" flood 6 years ago. At 4.94 m

At the deepest point in the moban ihe water level was 1.80 m .I watch the website " hydro-1" regular and prepare my house ( sandbags, shutter and pump).On the flooding night

the website was shut down ( no access) and nobody told us how high it will come.It is a 2 storey house so I could save many things.Water level in 1. floor 1.30m

As the electricity was shut down i had to save my sausages in the deepfreezer and frigerators (www.countrysausagethailand.com) with a canoe and bring them to some friends.Today is already the 2. day of cleaning.

My experience is, that the house will be dry in about 3 weeks and the smell gos away.Some losses of furnitures and food and a lot of work.

Remember Thaksin : Chiang Mai will never be flooded again and 3 weeks later we had the century flood, i wonder what they will call it now.His sister now reigns the country.Is the

flood now a bad omen for thailand ?

[egypte]

Sorry guys, the CCTC is from way down south, at the entrance of Bangkok, Thanon Nakhon Chai Si.

[Gonzo the Face]

Does anyone know of or have a link to a North Thailand map the shows mainly the rivers and streams and which goes into what , to become the what. Also would like to have shown the reservoirs and dams and where they are located along the rivers. Just some of the bigger cities and towns for locating value

Thanks

G

[egypte]

Does anyone know of or have a link to a North Thailand map the shows mainly the rivers and streams and which goes into what , to become the what. Also would like to have shown the reservoirs and dams and where they are located along the rivers. Just some of the bigger cities and towns for locating value

Thanks

G

Not sure if I can post this link : http://ridth.com/watertask/

[Tywais]

Does anyone know of or have a link to a North Thailand map the shows mainly the rivers and streams and which goes into what , to become the what. Also would like to have shown the reservoirs and dams and where they are located along the rivers. Just some of the bigger cities and towns for locating value

Now you ask, had it but had to look it up again. At the bottom of the pdf file, dated Oct. 2 2011, shows some maps but all in Thai.

http://water.rid.go.th/flood/flood/day02102011.pdf

[Gonzo the Face]

Thinking about the flooding......heres a weather report calling for CM to be under Thunderstorms thru next Thursday

http://weather.yahoo.com/thailand/chiang-mai/chiang-mai-12756736/

g

[taff33]

I live about 40k south of Lampang, heavy rain all last night and today, local rivers very full and some flooding nothing like CM.

[cloudhopper]

Thinking about the flooding......heres a weather report calling for CM to be under Thunderstorms thru next Thursday

http://weather.yahoo...g-mai-12756736/

g

Looks like heavy rain could fall over the next 48 hours. A typhoon is also currently heading this way and forecast to be over the Gulf of Tonkin Tues evening but too early to know if that will have any impact here later in the week. Lots of rain around the Pai valley and the river is raging but it drains into the Andaman Sea so is no factor for CM.

[donnacim]

Glad to hear you're all drying out some up there! I was supposed to fly in last week, but thought better of it. Now I'm debating going Wednesday, and probably just staying in the old town. Sounds like that will be right in the aftermath of whatever Nesat leaves . . . any thoughts on whether that's likely to affect airport to inner moat area (specifically getting from one to the other)?

That section of town seems to hold up well during the floods (airport to inner moat) and you should be o.k. edit: as long as you stay up on Mahidol. Thipanet does flood and get difficult.

Thipanet floods? That's pretty far from the river . . . the flooding doesn't cover all the way over to the river, does it?

It was flooded yesterday about 200m or so from the airport intersection. Surprised me because I've never seen it flood there. On my motorcycle heading toward the airport intersection and had to get near the oncoming traffic side where the road is higher to get through..

Thanks for the help Thaiwx! I've rescheduled and will try again for Wednesday. For all our sake, but mostly for all of you who live there, I hope it keeps going down.

[cloudhopper]

Looks like that typhoon has been downgraded to a TS and is slowing as well. Still forecast to begin affecting the Eastern part of Northern Thailand around Thursday but seems a bit less likely now.

[trainman34014]

Hell of a lot of rain in Hang Dong these last few hours. How's the River looking in the City?

[weary]

Ping River water levels at Ban Mae Tae, San Sai (critical 4.00 m)

18:00 2.74

19:00 2.74

20:00 2.75

21:00 2.76

22:00 2.77

Ping River water levels at Nawarat Bridge, Chiang Mai (critical 3.70 m)

18:00 3.28

19:00 3.25

20:00 3.22

21:00 3.20

22:00 3.19

[realthaideal]

Hey Gonzo ! How's your Thai ? If you can't read, maybe you've got a translator (wink wink) handy. Here's a funky diagram off of the hydro-1 website. I'll give you just the link for the Ping into Chao Prayah schematic, and then the general one I pulled it from. Interesting thing is that it's super simplified and squarified, but maybe that makes it an easier diagram to follow. The Ping diagram follows the path from Mae Ngat all the way to Nakorn Sawan n Chaynat.

http://model.haii.or.th/app/report/chaopraya_chart/ping.php

http://www.hydro-1.net/

Hmm.....looks like the link is the general one despite me being ona different pg. Go to the middle with the 6 Colored Bars with a light pulsating thru them. Click on the very bottom one (pale algae green color? in this case) and it leads you to a pg with quite a few schematics of waterways in the country - including major rivers, their tributaries, and the locks they have at their disposal to control flow.

[realthaideal]

Or maybe here's just the one you want, though several are noteworthy:

http://model.haii.or.th/app/report/chaopraya_chart/ping.php

[mermaid70]

According to Chiang Mai Mail, local sources are reporting that they have heard the dams may be forced to release water as the dams are still full and more rain is forecast for next week. I know this is as vague as it gets, but better to know...

[WinnieTheKhwai]

According to Chiang Mai Mail, local sources are reporting that they have heard the dams may be forced to release water as the dams are still full and more rain is forecast for next week. I know this is as vague as it gets, but better to know...

Saw that too. (Note that the source for that one is not their main web site but their Facebook news updates; included below for reference)

[IanKalway]

fwiw, we are being told this is our last day at montfort.. spent most of the day sandbagging. they are expecting more flooding later this week as it has been raining non-stop in the mtns since last friday