Pattaya Beach "disappears" in places after heavy rainfall!

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Pattaya Beach "disappears" in places after heavy rainfall!



PATTAYA: -- Sections of Pattaya Beach have disappeared following the heavy rainfall on Monday Night.
After 2 hours of sustained and heavy rainfall, much of Pattaya experienced flash floods with water depths of up-to 1 meter in places.

On Tuesday Morning Pattaya City officials toured the city to survey the damage caused by the rains and found that sections of Pattaya Beach, especially the Northern end of the Beach had been swept into the ocean as the rainwater flowed down to the beach taking sections of the beach with it.

Concrete walls and drainage channels had been destroyed and sections of the beach had disappeared after the sand, some of which had recently been placed there to artificially build-up the heavily eroded sections of beach, had been lost to the sea.

Full story: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/104451/pattaya-beach-disappears-places-heavy-rainfall/


-- Pattaya One 2013-10-02

[Chang_paarp]

Pattaya Officials are now counting the cost of the damage to the beach and questions are being asked as to why recent expansion work to Beach Road, which is one of many known flooding hot-spots in the City, did not incorporate an upgraded storm drain system to ensure that rainwater could be dispersed into the ocean without damaging the beach. - See more at: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/104451/pattaya-beach-disappears-places-heavy-rainfall/#sthash.Hh0Z4Ubm.dpuf

In a phrase "piss poor forward planning"

[Briggsy]

Is that all the very expensive sand they trucked from Jantaburi? Have to bring some more now!

[Tanlic]

With luck it will rain a bit heavier next time..........place needs a good clean up

[Kerryd]

But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on.

[gemini81]

Blame the rain & weather.

[Cuban]

I'm sure there was a statement that flooding would never happen again a few years ago.

[harber8]

It's ok.

This will all be over in 7 days.

Sorry, 6 days now.

[Xonax]

But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on.

That´s exactly what politics in Thailand is all about!

[harrycallahan]

Climate Change Threatens Coconut Bar

Thousands of displaced working girls and pick pocket lady boys have been forced to flea after rains devastated their usual place of work.

Scientists suspect also that rising sea levels have amplified the problem.

"We're sending a team of our best environmental scientists now who will complete a report of the incident. Our focus will be on the Soi 6 area where the devastation has been particulary brutal."

[Joe Mamma]

How many used condoms washed to sea?? "Is that a little jellyfish there mom?"

[alfalfa19]

More rain please. As Maynard James Keenan sings: "The only way to fix it is to flush it all away"

[circusman]

But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on.

The world has enough problems without you adding your negative comments. .

[SunSeek01]

I've been over there more than 10 times. Every time I had a great time and two of the trips were more than 6 months. Why bat down these guys all the time? It beats the heck out of most places and I've been to quite a few. Getting anything done is not easy any time and when any Govt. is involved it just makes it harder and far more prone to fail. I trust they're doing what they can.

[lostmebike]

Pity it didn't wash away any of the freaks that patrol the area too

[Ianatlarge]

Pattaya is the greatest city in Thailand, if not the entire world. Every resource available needs to be devoted to an immediate restoration of this paradise on Earth.

[Bagwan]

But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on.

A very credible prophesy. I too expect history to repeat itself. I'd hire a gang of utang-orangs before using the idiots that desecrated the lower half of Pattaya Tai.

[Bagwan]

But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on.

The world has enough problems without you adding your negative comments. .

Yeah. Good idea. Bury your head in the sand. Oops, there isn't any.

With parts of Pattaya under water yet again the Chinese tourists will be quite at home.

[Rimmer]

Off topic post removed

[rjcampbe]

First floods, then the frogs and locusts...

I can't wait for the fire and brimstone!

[Emdog]

KerryD wrote "But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on."

and some see it as a negative post? I beg to differ. Think of the employment opportunities. If you do a job right the first time, then what you going to do? You'd be out of a job. Here the motto is "If it ain't broke, break it!"

And the guy that's been here ten times, saying "I trust they're doing what they can". I agree. But they can't do much outside of figuring how to skim money.

[Robbie Dye]

Which part of Thailand do Utangs come from? Isan somewhere?? I thought it was Orangutans? Surely not Utang-Orangs?

[dansan]

Pattaya is the greatest city in Thailand, if not the entire world. Every resource available needs to be devoted to an immediate restoration of this paradise on Earth.

Your kidding right?

[Johnnie99]

Climate Change Threatens Coconut Bar

Thousands of displaced working girls and pick pocket lady boys have been forced to flea after rains devastated their usual place of work.

Scientists suspect also that rising sea levels have amplified the problem.

"We're sending a team of our best environmental scientists now who will complete a report of the incident. Our focus will be on the Soi 6 area where the devastation has been particulary brutal."

Flea, huh? Infestations are clearly rampant of more than one type of pest!

[Johnnie99]

Pattaya is the greatest city in Thailand, if not the entire world. Every resource available needs to be devoted to an immediate restoration of this paradise on Earth.

Brilliantly witty

[Johnnie99]

Pattaya is the greatest city in Thailand, if not the entire world. Every resource available needs to be devoted to an immediate restoration of this paradise on Earth.

Your kidding right?

Sorry to be a grammar <deleted> but ... it's 'you're' kidding (as in 'you are') ...

[lostmebike]

Pattaya is the greatest city in Thailand, if not the entire world. Every resource available needs to be devoted to an immediate restoration of this paradise on Earth.

Your kidding right?

You have to ask? Can't you detect the sarcasm?

[ebonykap]

Doing my rain dance now in the hope that it will totally disappear

[Just1Voice]

looking at the broken wall, me thinks someone may have watered down the concrete mix just a wee bit. Of course, if that happened, I'm sure it was just an honest mistake, and nothing to do with taking 30% off the top and skimping on the proper materials to make up the difference.

[MarkCyr]

No surprise. In August they were just finishing up the brick-path rebuild. And by "rebuild" I mean just bricks laid on loosely packed, brown sand. Three of us were walking up it saying, "Just wait till the next big rain."

On the bright side, this kind of crap construction creates continual employment in Pattaya. This gives a bit of extra money to Somchai (and , as always, to the local dirty politicians who take a cut of contracts).

Edited October 2, 2013 by MarkCyr