Flood Protests Intensify: Thailand

[Credo]

I am in a flooded area. The houses around here aren't flooded, but the roads are and are still impassible by smaller vehicles. The water has been slowly receding. As much as I hate to say this, I hope the big bag barriers upstream from us get dismantled. It will mean higher water again and a great deal of inconvenience, but that water will have to pass through on its way out and the sooner the better. A lot of people being inconvenienced for a relatively short period of time is better than a few (quite a few) inconvenienced for a very long time.

This is torture. Thai Water Torture Treatment.

[TAWP]

Thawi Wattana, Bang Khae residents block Kanchanapisek Rd, show dissatisfaction with raising sluice gates causing higher flood /MCOT

Raising sluice gates you mean letting less water pass ? Just wonder what sluice gates are blocking their flow of water.

Opening the gates causes increased flooding for those lower down after the gates, now receiving more water than before. That is why they are angry.

I got that TWAP but they were talking about raising (meaning letting less water through). That would cause less flooding for them. Later Webfact gave a message contradicting yours so must have been a grammar error.

If the opening is under water-line the raising of a 'shield' would increase the opening for the water to travel through.

The protest anyway was from those negatively affected by the increase in water into their area.

[robblok]

Raising sluice gates you mean letting less water pass ? Just wonder what sluice gates are blocking their flow of water.

Opening the gates causes increased flooding for those lower down after the gates, now receiving more water than before. That is why they are angry.

I got that TWAP but they were talking about raising (meaning letting less water through). That would cause less flooding for them. Later Webfact gave a message contradicting yours so must have been a grammar error.

If the opening is under water-line the raising of a 'shield' would increase the opening for the water to travel through.

The protest anyway was from those negatively affected by the increase in water into their area.

Yea depends how you look at it.. what kind of barrier it is if its a barrier you drop down to block or one that raises up to block. My bad.

[Old Man River]

I am in a flooded area. The houses around here aren't flooded, but the roads are and are still impassible by smaller vehicles. The water has been slowly receding. As much as I hate to say this, I hope the big bag barriers upstream from us get dismantled. It will mean higher water again and a great deal of inconvenience, but that water will have to pass through on its way out and the sooner the better. A lot of people being inconvenienced for a relatively short period of time is better than a few (quite a few) inconvenienced for a very long time.

This is torture. Thai Water Torture Treatment.

I am with you on this. Although my house is not flooded and my street is not flooded and nobody in my immediate vicinity is flooded, it would have been better for all concerned to let the water through all of Bangkok on the way to the ocean and get this over with.

In my view, it is one thing for a natural disaster to cause damage, and completely another thing for a select few to decide who gets damaged from a natural disaster and who doesn't.

[Credo]

I understand the need to try to save certain places, either because they are essential or because they can be saved with minimum negative impact.

I also understand the need to control what happens as much as possible. They seem to have about as much control as they will ever have and so the sooner they start the release, the better. The goal, however, has to be getting rid of the water.

As it now stands, I think much of our decrease is because of evaporation!