webfact Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chang_paarp Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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" 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Is that all the very expensive sand they trucked from Jantaburi? Have to bring some more now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tanlic Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 With luck it will rain a bit heavier next time..........place needs a good clean up 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kerryd Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini81 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Blame the rain & weather. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cuban Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 I'm sure there was a statement that flooding would never happen again a few years ago. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post harber8 Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 It's ok. This will all be over in 7 days. Sorry, 6 days now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xonax Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post harrycallahan Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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." 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joe Mamma Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 How many used condoms washed to sea?? "Is that a little jellyfish there mom?" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfalfa19 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 More rain please. As Maynard James Keenan sings: "The only way to fix it is to flush it all away" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post circusman Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SunSeek01 Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lostmebike Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 Pity it didn't wash away any of the freaks that patrol the area too 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ianatlarge Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagwan Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagwan Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Off topic post removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjcampbe Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 First floods, then the frogs and locusts... I can't wait for the fire and brimstone! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emdog Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robbie Dye Posted October 2, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2013 Which part of Thailand do Utangs come from? Isan somewhere?? I thought it was Orangutans? Surely not Utang-Orangs? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dansan Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie99 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie99 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie99 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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') ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostmebike Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebonykap Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Doing my rain dance now in the hope that it will totally disappear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just1Voice Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkCyr Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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