400 Homes In Phrae Affected By Flooding; Rail Line Cut

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400 homes in Phrae affected by flooding; rail line cut

The Nation

PHRAE: -- Apart from ongoing heavy flooding in the South, Phrae province in the North yesterday faced a flash flood, with more than 400 households based in Long district affected.

The sudden inundation also submerged a long railway section in tambon Ban Pin, prompting a temporary halt to longdistance train service including on the Chiang MaiBangkok route. Repair works are underway and were expected to be completed by last night.

In neighbouring Sukhothai, the situation was still under control after a number of measures were adopted, including digging a large reservoir, dredging many canals and building a number of dams and small gates, said provincial authorities. Last year, the province saw all nine districts flooded, with 18 victims drowning.

In the South, Ranong, Chumphon, Surat Thani and Krabi provinces have been hit by floods, with more than 23,827 households affected, said an update to the official flood damage report yesterday.

A flood damage estimate in Ranong alone reached Bt200 million, said provincial governor Pheerasak Hinmuangkao, who added that more than 23,000 people in more than 4,900 households had been affected. The floods have destroyed or damaged 88 roads, 27 bridges and 70 roadside drains. A total of 693 fishing trawlers were damaged and 2,219 farmers affected.

A crack one metre wide, two metres deep and 100 metres long developed on a hill located in La Un district after days of heavy rain, causing fear to local residents. Residents from five nearby homes have been evacuated. Those living on foothills or sloped areas in Ranong have been urged to use caution over possible landslides.

The total volume of large dams across the country has reached 53 per cent of their 31 billioncubicmetre capacity, said the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department's update yesterday.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called a meeting of officials responsible for flood prevention projects at her Bangkok home yesterday, to check on progress of the works for her inspection trips across the country, from today to Thursday (Jun 1114). She has another meeting today with a national board on flood and water management, before heading out of Bangkok.

-- The Nation 2012-06-11

[LuckyLew]

The floods of 2012 are brought to you by:

A lack of leadership and mass land encroachment

[Ricardo]

Surely any floods this year must be a misconception, as the government has promised, that there won't be any.

And ministers can't be wrong, or tell untruths, can they ?

[MEL1]

"A flood damage estimate in Ranong alone reached Bt200 million, said provincial governor Pheerasak Hinmuangkao, who added that more than 23,000 people in more than 4,900 households had been affected. The floods have destroyed or damaged 88 roads, 27 bridges and 70 roadside drains. A total of 693 fishing trawlers were damaged and 2,219 farmers affected."

So despite the water not reaching Ayutthaya or BKK even, the government has already failed. FACT!

It said no flooding in Thailand this year. The photograph is enough evidence to prove failure, and there's more to come.

The government failed with school tablets, the minimum pay rate and now flooding.

Is there anything this government won't fail to deliver as promised?

Complete shambles, and they should all be forced to resign for lack of duty and failing to deliver what they promised the people.

There is a word of hope though! If they have failed so much at everything they've attemped then it reasons that they will fail to get TS back!

-mel.

[FOODLOVER]

Close your eyes and let Yinluck and the Reddelles explain!

[SOTIRIOS]

.....so much for the 'preparations made'.....

[tomross46]

This can not be true, it is nothing but lies. The government has told Japanse investers that there would not be any floods this year. This came down from Big Brother. Or was it One Flew over a Koko Nest.