Inundation costs Mae Sot close to Bt2 billion in losses
THE NATION



TAK: -- Other than suffering damages estimated at Bt1 billion in border trade, Tak's Mae Sot district lost another Bt800 million as 20 factories along the Mei River were forced to close temporarily due to floods, provincial industrial council adviser Chaiyuth Senitantikul said yesterday. The factories will reopen in two weeks, he added.

Though most areas in the Mae Sot municipality area were no longer flooded, Chaiyuth said tambons Tha Sai Luat and Tha Ard along the Mei River were still inundated, although the water level had gone down. He said Mei River overflows had also hit some 20 clothes-manufacturing plants, and their power had to be cut for safety reasons and some 4,000 workers had to be evacuated. He said the factories suffered damages of at least Bt800 million because the materials and machines were not moved in time.

Prasong Santipanarak, manager of Chana Import Export Partnership, said the goods pending to be taken to Myanmar had been damaged and the firm was assessing the damage. He said that it would take up to a week for the goods transport to resume as floods had also affected Myanmar.

Banphot Korkiatcharoen, adviser to the Tak Chamber of Commerce, is calling on all sides to use this as a lesson and set up concrete disaster-warning measures. He said the damage to border trade from the five-day flood could have been worth more than Bt1 billion, with up to Bt100 million in property damage.

Meanwhile, floods in Chiang Rai province had affected 44,430 people in 16 districts with two people being killed from landslides in Mae Suay district on Monday and a youngster drowning in Mae Fa Luang district on Tuesday. In the Northeast, Nakhon Ratchasima's Phimai district has returned to normal after the six sluice gates of the Phimai Dam were opened to release water on to the Lam Chakkarat waterway.

Meanwhile, Bangkok Deputy Governor Jumpol Sumpaopol has instructed officials to check all billboards in the capital for safety. He said city officials had fixed 900 of the 1,600 billboards on 150 roads and was in the process of demolishing 70 illegal ones.


-- The Nation 2013-08-02

The floods are coming! The floods are coming!

Page 1 of the Thai maintenance and emergency procedures:

1- Wait for something to break or go wrong to do its maintenance.

2- In case of impending floods: Quickly make sure the billboards are safe and legal!

3- Allocate enough coffins for officials to invoke the spirits of ancestors for help and guidance!

........they have their trusty government to thank.....

(....laughing all the way to foreign bank accounts.....)

........they have their trusty government to thank.....

(....laughing all the way to foreign bank accounts.....)

But But But.....................................

lost another Bt800 million as 20 factories along the Mei River were forced to close temporarily due to floods

Closed for less than a month and lost Bt 40 million per factory on average. What business is that? May be worth getting into. ​