Thousands of flood victims continue to arrive in Pattaya

PATTAYA: -- Those affected by the floods in Bangkok and Central Thailand continue to arrive in Pattaya as the situation in the flood affected areas, especially in Bangkok worsens. To facilitate the thousands of people who have chosen to reside in Pattaya, the local Traffic Police are working around the clock to ensure some form of traffic flow is maintained as they struggle to deal with the thousands of extra vehicles on the roads. The Pattaya Bus Company are now running services to and from Bangkok every 10 minutes compared to their usual frequency of every 20 minutes to cope with the increase in passengers. Flood Evacuation Centers have also been set-up for those who either cannot find accommodation or cannot afford hotel rooms and for now they appear to be coping well. For those living in Pattaya, sourcing food and other provisions is becoming harder by the hour as local branches of Tesco-Lotus in South and North Pattaya, Big C Supercenters and Macro’s in Jomtien are reporting critically low levels of essential items such as rice and eggs. Drinking water, in the main parts of Pattaya is becoming harder to find, however in the East of Pattaya supplies remain good for now. Some families we spoke with on Friday Morning have planned to remain in Pattaya for at least 2 weeks and unless supply routes are re-opened Pattaya could be facing serious food shortages across the entire city very soon.

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-- Pattaya One 2011-10-28

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So, the main tourist areas are not affected by the floods, maybe not by water.

Pattaya is flooded.......by evacuees and guess what, the BiB act as the Government in Bangkok........they block roads and junctions in order to push the flood in a certain direction, causing parts of the city to overflow.