Prachin Buri, Chachoengsao worst hit by floods

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Prachin Buri, Chachoengsao worst hit by floods
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- Prachin Buri and Chachoengsao are the two provinces most affected by the current flooding, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department (DPMD) said.

Both provinces are severely inundated, DPMD director-general Chatchai Phromlert said yesterday.

"Flooding has also hit 20 other provinces, but their situations are less serious," he said.

Prachin Buri has been flooded for more than one month, with runoff water from the province now inundating neighbouring Chachoengsao. Several roads in the provinces are underwater.

Authorities have admitted it will be hard to drain floodwater from these two provinces in the face of the ongoing high tide in the Gulf of Thailand. The rising seawater level makes it difficult to push the water out to the Gulf via the Bang Pakong River - the provinces' main water-drainage channel.

Chatchai said seven other provinces - Chon Buri, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Nayok, Ubon Ratchathani, Buri Ram, Khon Kaen and Ayutthaya - were experiencing medium-level flooding.

In Nakhon Ratchasima, officials at the Phimai National Museum were busy wrapping valuable exhibits in plastic as the floodwater level rose. The water level there was above 40 centimetres as of press time yesterday.

Chatchai said minor flooding had also been reported in Chaiyaphum, Si Sa Ket, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Phetchaburi, Suphan Buri, Nakhon Pathom, Phitsanulok, Phichit, Saraburi, Lop Buri and Angthong.

"During the past two months, 25 other provinces have seen flooding, but the situations there have already returned to normal," he said.

Since September 17, floods have ravaged more than 3.5 million rai of farmland, damaged 31,523 houses and killed 76 people.

According to the Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec), the inundation has damaged over 300 schools.

"We will request Bt200 million for repairs," Obec secretary-general Apichart Jeerawuth said yesterday.

He said the latest survey of flood-ravaged schools did not cover Prachin Buri and Chachoengsao, as the flooding there was too severe to permit it.

In a related development, heavy downpours have caused flash floods in some villages in Lampang's Muang Pan district.

"Rainfall is over 100 millimetres. More than 100 houses are flooded," said Ban Khor Tambon Administrative Organisation chief executive Somboon Kachapanya.

Local people were moving their belongings to higher ground due to the continuing downpours, Somboon said.


-- The Nation 2013-10-22

[maingmoom]

I'm in Chachoengsou province and after suffering flooding in our village, I'm pleased to say that today, the water has gone down by about 15inche's. Of course the problem is the crops are now ruined and the water will remain in the fields for many more days.

[Kerryd]

lol - somehow it seems that every province around Sa Kaew/Sa Kaeo (Prachin Buri, Buriram, Chachoengsao) has been flooded but somehow Sa Kaew/Sa Kaeo has been missed ?

(Makes note to tell better-half that all that water in her province isn't really there, it's all just her imagination !)

[lucjoker]

it is not the water that is to blame,

it is the lack or bad working sewering,

But this is maybe to difficult to understand?

[marcusd]

I feel so sorry the genuine people are suffering whilst those pigs in government flleece the coffers

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