Waterlogged Soi Wat Boon hit again by floods

PATTAYA:--So Wat Boon residents may not be able to predict the weather, but they can predict that when it does rain, their South Pattaya neighborhood is going to flood. It happens every rainy season.

Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay made the annual pilgrimage to the low-lying neighborhood Oct. 3 which is waterlogged again after the latest storm three days earlier. He brought along Engineering Department workers to pump out what flood-drain backup they could while issuing the same apologies city officials have made for years.

Verawat ordered all the steel plates at an under-construction drainage project removed and for rubber pipe to be laid underneath the soi so that the water connects with the Najomtien Canal.

Full story:http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/waterlogged-soi-wat-boon-hit-again-by-floods-30979

-- Pattaya Mail 2013-10-13

Which Soi Watboon is this? Soi Watboon-Sampatan (sp?) on the "Dark Side," or Soi Watboon-Kanjanaram in Jomtien?

Which Soi Watboon is this? Soi Watboon-Sampatan (sp?) on the "Dark Side," or Soi Watboon-Kanjanaram in Jomtien?

This would be the latter as it is at a particularly low lying area.

Aall you TV'ers who were thinking about buying a nice plot of land or an existing house/condo out there had better think again.

Good advice for anybody before buying land or a house/condo in Thailand is to see it in the rainy season so you know where the high water mark is likely to be. That way you know how high on the wall to mount your widescreen tele to avoid damage.

Edited October 15, 201312 yr by Gsxrnz

Aall you TV'ers who were thinking about buying a nice plot of land or an existing house/condo out there had better think again.

Good advice for anybody before buying land or a house/condo in Thailand is to see it in the rainy season so you know where the high water mark is likely to be. That way you know how high on the wall to mount your widescreen tele to avoid damage.

Maybe a Venice of the East, Maybe the Baht Bus Mafiose should invest in a few gondolas.