look's like venice. I'm happy to stay in switzerland right now

Unlucky for those in Phuket hope too not too much damage because doubtful if insurance will cover, if they have any that is. Most will not..

Pity they could not move the rain along to Buriram where we are desperate for a good amount of rain for the rice fields.

Wash away that cesspool of an island!!!! Get out all the druggies, mafia, tuk, tuk dip sticks etc. Phuket needs a good washing out!!!

Amazing Thailand !

"The downpours last night followed the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) issuing a “heavy rain” weather warning on Saturday after Tropical Storm Kai-Tak moved from Laos into Thailand."

The tropical storm moved from Laos to Phuket without spilling much water on its way over Isaan, Northern Thailand and Central Thailand. It saved everything for the South!

Check this link in TMD : http://www.tmd.go.th/en/climate.php

Isaan is dry, very dry!

Too dry for the rice farmers......

Phuket floods delay flight, mudslide confirmed

Phuket Gazette

A snail enjoys the spectacle of Phuket traffic being slowed to his own pace, as motorists navigate floodwater that seriously affected Thepkrsattri Road in Koh Kaew this morning. Photo: Stephen Fein

PHUKET: -- The floodwater that slowed traffic to a snail’s pace across Phuket this morning resulted in a Thai Airways flight being delayed to ensure passengers caught in traffic jams could get aboard.

Staff at the Phuket International Airport Customer Service department confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that Thai Airways flight number TG204, scheduled to depart Phuket at 10:55am, was delayed for 30 minutes to allow passengers arriving late to clear entry procedures and take their seats on board the aircraft.

However, the staffer also confirmed that was the only flight delayed; all other flights were operating as scheduled.

“Only TG204 of THAI Airways waited for its passengers this morning. Our flight schedule is now running on time, as normal,” she said.

“People who missed the morning flight can catch another flight in the afternoon. There are 11 flights of THAI Airways leaving Phuket to Bangkok daily,” she added.

Meanwhile, Phuket Highways Office Director Samak Luedwonghad confirmed that his office received reports of a landslide in Paklok.

“However, it was only mud on the road. Nobody was injured and no houses were damaged.”

“We also received a report of a damaged road in Paklok Village 4. The road was blocked. It is clear now and traffic can pass as usual.”

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...rmed-16726.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-08-22

Phuket floods delay flight, mudslide confirmed

Phuket Gazette

A snail enjoys the spectacle of Phuket traffic being slowed to his own pace, as motorists navigate floodwater that seriously affected Thepkrsattri Road in Koh Kaew this morning. Photo: Stephen Fein

PHUKET: -- The floodwater that slowed traffic to a snail’s pace across Phuket this morning resulted in a Thai Airways flight being delayed to ensure passengers caught in traffic jams could get aboard.

Staff at the Phuket International Airport Customer Service department confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that Thai Airways flight number TG204, scheduled to depart Phuket at 10:55am, was delayed for 30 minutes to allow passengers arriving late to clear entry procedures and take their seats on board the aircraft.

However, the staffer also confirmed that was the only flight delayed; all other flights were operating as scheduled.

“Only TG204 of THAI Airways waited for its passengers this morning. Our flight schedule is now running on time, as normal,” she said.

“People who missed the morning flight can catch another flight in the afternoon. There are 11 flights of THAI Airways leaving Phuket to Bangkok daily,” she added.

Meanwhile, Phuket Highways Office Director Samak Luedwonghad confirmed that his office received reports of a landslide in Paklok.

“However, it was only mud on the road. Nobody was injured and no houses were damaged.”

“We also received a report of a damaged road in Paklok Village 4. The road was blocked. It is clear now and traffic can pass as usual.”

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...rmed-16726.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-08-22

This means there was a Thai heavy-hitter stuck in traffic, probably a Govt official.

Time to get the ski-jets out

Nah, I don't want to get scammed! ;-)

Poor old Nai Harn had a bit of rain by the looks of it.Going to have to take a set of step ladders to get on the beach soon.The storm has dumped a load of sand on the beach though which is good news

Wash away that cesspool of an island!!!! Get out all the druggies, mafia, tuk, tuk dip sticks etc. Phuket needs a good washing out!!!

There are a lot of good people here too. There is a bit of damage in some areas. It was reported that we got almost 18 CM in a three hour period. My rain gauge overflowed at 13 CM. Pouring rain again now...

Glad my house is on top of a small hill and just in case, it's built on stilts.

That's great, but I hope you don't "slide" away.

I wonder if all the nightclubs will be open past 2am, just to let the flooding subside for the patrons?

Free swimming lessons.

No ..... !! This is journalistic bullshit using old file photos.

Her ladyship, Khun Yingluck, told us that this would never be allowed to happen again, so somebody is clearly out to tarnish her reputation...!!

My rain gauge overflowed at 5 inches.

Not something to brag about mate.

My rain gauge overflowed at 5 inches.

Not something to brag about mate.

Next time I'm in the US I'll have to buy a big 10 inch!

Heavy rains bring Phuket to standstill

YONGYOT PRUKSARAK,

CHULEEPORN ARAMNET,

JEERAPHONG PRASERTPHOLKRANG

THE NATION

PHUKET: -- There was chaos on the roads in downtown Phuket yesterday after heavy downpours on Tuesday night and high tides swamped the popular tourist island. Flooding forced nine schools to close.

Traffic was almost at a standstill on many roads in the Phuket City Municipality and on roads to Phuket International Airport, due to 50cm to metre-high floodwater.

The schools that were inundated and had to close were: Phuket Wittayalai, Satree Phuket, Phutthamongkolnimit, Wittaya Sathid, Kanok Kwan Kindergarten, Muslim Wittayalai Phuket, Ban Tarua, Wat Si Sunthon and Ban Bung Khla School.

The Thai Airways flight TG 204, which was due to depart at 10.55am, had to be delayed by half an hour to wait for passengers stuck in traffic.

On Thepkrasattri Road, traffic was at a standstill for two to three kilometres.

Thephuketnews.com website said some 150 metres of Patong Hill Road, on the Kathu side of Sea Pearl Villas, had collapsed due to the rain. The motorbike lane and most of another lane disappeared on the Patong-bound side of the road, leaving a yawning hole several metres deep.

Some areas of Kathu district, especially Patong, were flooded, while the Mungmai-Pakhlok Road was under a metre of water. A landslide was also reported in Thalang district.

PM Yingluck Shinawatra later said floods had receded and the situation was getting back to normal. Five provinces in the South were warned to prepare for possible flash floods.

Compensation criteria for people affected from flash floods will be based on damage incurred.

-- The Nation 2012-08-23

no wonder if they close all the waterways, small ponds and lakes with rubbish and concrete to build more more more houses.....most people, specially Chinese doesnt even like anything green infront of their doors, so they use concrete

instead of lawn..... the water can not go into the soil and to the groundwater anymore.....Phuket is becoming a sh1tehole

more and more, a hole with much more traffic like Bangkok

Sodom & Gomorrah strikes Phoo-ket Town.

amazing, nothing like that here in rawai, i would guess 5cm last night at the most

Much much more in my area of Rawai.

ok, not so much more but we have had plenty of rain here too, but we needed it after 4 weeks without a drop....may be stevehaig has made it alright going to bed early with a deep sleep

Glad my house is on top of a small hill and just in case, it's built on stilts.

That's great, but I hope you don't "slide" away.

Not a chance. The stilts are on top of concrete piles that go down six metres.

There's no lake or river in Asia which is blue or green, as clean rivers and lakes ought to be. Nothing outside the Himalayas, anyway.

Phuket has been around awhile. Torrential rains have been around a lot longer. Did the planners realize there may be exceptionally rainy days, and plan accordingly? Here's a word they may want to learn: culvert.

Glad my house is on top of a small hill and just in case, it's built on stilts.

That's great, but I hope you don't "slide" away.

Not a chance. The stilts are on top of concrete piles that go down six metres.

If you look at the photo on today's PG website, half of the road on the hill has fallen away.

Remember a couple of years ago the block of apartments that fell off the cliff face into the ocean, and luckily no one was killed? I had a quick google for it but couldn't find the story.

I hope your foundations are better than the above two cases.

Personally, I don't have a lot of confidence in the geotech, design, engineering and construction here, but hey, as long as the money keeps rolling in, who cares, right? :) :)

There's no lake or river in Asia which is blue or green, as clean rivers and lakes ought to be. Nothing outside the Himalayas, anyway.

I guess all the rivers in tropics are brownish yellow.

Blue or green color of the river simply means that there is no sediment on the water, which implicates that if there is rain water on the river, the ground is poor.

I would say that the water what was in Phuket is the color of healthy water on the nature point of view.

Here is one image from the Amazon basis (Ecuador). Definitely unpolluted area. The water color is pretty much the same that was in Phuket town yesterday.

There's no lake or river in Asia which is blue or green, as clean rivers and lakes ought to be. Nothing outside the Himalayas, anyway.

Phuket has been around awhile. Torrential rains have been around a lot longer. Did the planners realize there may be exceptionally rainy days, and plan accordingly? Here's a word they may want to learn: culvert.

Planners? Wot planners?

Glad my house is on top of a small hill and just in case, it's built on stilts.

That's great, but I hope you don't "slide" away.

Not a chance. The stilts are on top of concrete piles that go down six metres.

If you look at the photo on today's PG website, half of the road on the hill has fallen away.

Remember a couple of years ago the block of apartments that fell off the cliff face into the ocean, and luckily no one was killed? I had a quick google for it but couldn't find the story.

I hope your foundations are better than the above two cases.

Personally, I don't have a lot of confidence in the geotech, design, engineering and construction here, but hey, as long as the money keeps rolling in, who cares, right?

The small hill I'm on is only a few metres high and I would guess the gradient is about 50:1. No chance of a land slide.

My rain gauge overflowed at 5 inches.

Not something to brag about mate.

Next time I'm in the US I'll have to buy a big 10 inch!

After a motorbike accident in which he lost his manhood, Somchai and his wife Nong visit Dr Mong for advice on penile replacement.

Dr Mong explains that there are 3 options. Firstly, 4" would be 25,000 baht. Secondly, 6" would be 40, 000 baht, and lastly, 8" would be 60,000 baht.

Dr Mong says that they both need to talk it over, and he would give them some time alone to discuss it.

After a few minutes, Dr Mong returns.

'Have you made a decision?' says Dr Mong.

'Yes', says Somchai. 'We're having a new kitchen'.

Traffic situation at the moment??

Traffic situation at the moment??

Back to normal, or at least around Phuket Town where my wife commutes to each morning.

Thanks pagallim was planning to come down from Bang Niang today for visa reasons, but I think i do it tomorrow although it's Friday.

So traffic is back to normal in Phuket Town after a day of heavy rain.

Yet "Brave" Karen and other regular Machos here take the opportunity to trash Phuket for bad planning.

I lived in Phuket Town for 3 years (2009-11) and I only recall flooding once, and only for a half-day.

No reasonable sewer system in any country can accommodate a deluge like that of the past week.

Plus, those who would use this storm to attack PM Yingluck for promising no repeat flooding in 2012: I am sure she was referring to Central Thailand and Bangkok which experienced flooding that Phuket has never seen and never will. You have no idea what it was like.

Finally, why don't you studs who post everyday on this Forum with the big jeeps and high-rise SUVs report about how you helped your Thai neighbors cope with the flooding.

Who did you help provide transport for? What school kids did you ferry to school? Whose stalled car did you help get started?

My conclusion is that you have no (un-bought) relationships with local Thais. Thus, you have nowhere else to go with your time but TV.

Get a Thai life.

So traffic is back to normal in Phuket Town after a day of heavy rain.

Yet "Brave" Karen and other regular Machos here take the opportunity to trash Phuket for bad planning.

I lived in Phuket Town for 3 years (2009-11) and I only recall flooding once, and only for a half-day.

No reasonable sewer system in any country can accommodate a deluge like that of the past week.

Plus, those who would use this storm to attack PM Yingluck for promising no repeat flooding in 2012: I am sure she was referring to Central Thailand and Bangkok which experienced flooding that Phuket has never seen and never will. You have no idea what it was like.

Finally, why don't you studs who post everyday on this Forum with the big jeeps and high-rise SUVs report about how you helped your Thai neighbors cope with the flooding.

Who did you help provide transport for? What school kids did you ferry to school? Whose stalled car did you help get started?

My conclusion is that you have no (un-bought) relationships with local Thais. Thus, you have nowhere else to go with your time but TV.

Get a Thai life.

So the Thai people dont complain about this and other concerns?