Heavy downpours devastate northeastern Thailand
By Digital Content



UBON RATCHATHANI, Aug 4 -- Several northeastern provinces in Thailand are encountering flash floods, affecting tens of thousands of people. The Meteorological Department has warned that heavy rains would continue in the region as well as along the Cambodian border.

In Ubon Ratchathani province bordering Laos, flooding has inundated thousands of rai of ricefields for three days while three villages in Don Mot Daeng district are completely under floodwater.

Roads leading to the villages are covered with floodwater for more than two kilometres and bridges are damaged.

Provincial officials are considering to declare two more districts disaster zones after earlier announcing 17 districts as disaster zones.

Officials said so far more than 27,000 households in Ubon Ratchathani have been affected by the flooding.

Disaster Prevention and Mitigation authorities in Amnat Charoen province, meanwhile, provided assistance to flood victims.

More than 50 houses in the provincial seat have been damaged while many roads are under water as high as 50 centimetres, making them impassable for small vehicles.

About 50 houses in Yasothon province are affected by the severe flood after a canal overflowed in Pa Tio district.

Soldiers helped the affected villagers move valuable effects to higher ground.

A number of canals in Nakhon Phanom province bordering Laos have overflowed, and thousands of rai of ricefield is completely inundated. But fishermen are happy as they could catch more fish in the river.

The weather agency warned that heavy downpours would continue in the Northeast and also urged people in the eastern provinces of Chanthaburi and Trat bordering Cambodia to be prepared for flash floods. (MCOT online news)

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poor guys, losing even more things they havent got to start with. I feel sorry for them all.

Easy to write sensationalist headlines. Truth is every year people who live in the flood plains of the River Mun in Meuang Ubon are flooded out. They know it and expect it and they have campsites on higher ground pre-arranged with the help of authorities which they occupy for 3 months. They could choose to live elsewhere.

 

OK - I know that they probably cannot afford to find a new place - though I suspect many choose to continue to live there as a voluntary economic decision. I also know that there are many people (anywhere in Thailand) who unexpectedly get flooded out and deserve our sympathy. I'm not naturally hard-hearted particularly when it comes to fellow-Isaanites - I'm just saying that journalistic sensationalism and the implication that floods in the North-East are life-devastating is often misplaced.

Easy to write sensationalist headlines. Truth is every year people who live in the flood plains of the River Mun in Meuang Ubon are flooded out. They know it and expect it and they have campsites on higher ground pre-arranged with the help of authorities which they occupy for 3 months. They could choose to live elsewhere.

 

OK - I know that they probably cannot afford to find a new place - though I suspect many choose to continue to live there as a voluntary economic decision. I also know that there are many people (anywhere in Thailand) who unexpectedly get flooded out and deserve our sympathy. I'm not naturally hard-hearted particularly when it comes to fellow-Isaanites - I'm just saying that journalistic sensationalism and the implication that floods in the North-East are life-devastating is often misplaced.

Greetings.  I do not understand your posting and complaint.  Words have meaning, and this is an unusually well written news report ... and nothing more.  There is nothing "sensational" about it.  It states simple facts, and uses the English language perfectly.

Example:

Devastating (Oxford Dictionary) - Highly destructive or damaging

It goes on to report what efforts are in progress to ensure the safety and comfort of those in harm's way.

Yes, tropical depressions in the region / monsoons are very predictable, and this is a story as old as time. 

Sort of not getting what ax you are grinding.  You clearly know Thailand and the Isaan  .. so know the grace. humor and patience they have in the face of this.

No one is bitching about this ... but you.  Which I find quite odd.

 

 

Easy to write sensationalist headlines. Truth is every year people who live in the flood plains of the River Mun in Meuang Ubon are flooded out. They know it and expect it and they have campsites on higher ground pre-arranged with the help of authorities which they occupy for 3 months. They could choose to live elsewhere.

 

OK - I know that they probably cannot afford to find a new place - though I suspect many choose to continue to live there as a voluntary economic decision. I also know that there are many people (anywhere in Thailand) who unexpectedly get flooded out and deserve our sympathy. I'm not naturally hard-hearted particularly when it comes to fellow-Isaanites - I'm just saying that journalistic sensationalism and the implication that floods in the North-East are life-devastating is often misplaced.

Greetings.  I do not understand your posting and complaint.  Words have meaning, and this is an unusually well written news report ... and nothing more.  There is nothing "sensational" about it.  It states simple facts, and uses the English language perfectly.

Example:

Devastating (Oxford Dictionary) - Highly destructive or damaging

It goes on to report what efforts are in progress to ensure the safety and comfort of those in harm's way.

Yes, tropical depressions in the region / monsoons are very predictable, and this is a story as old as time. 

Sort of not getting what ax you are grinding.  You clearly know Thailand and the Isaan  .. so know the grace. humor and patience they have in the face of this.

No one is bitching about this ... but you.  Which I find quite odd.

 

 

Greetings. I do not understand your posting or pedantry. Words have meaning

 

Example:

 

Bitching (Urban Dictionary)

 

Repeatedly saying something over and over, or rather whining about it, therefore destroying the point you were trying to make and making you look like a complete bitch because no one is listening to you.

 

No one is bitching about anything!

 

 

Here in Soeng Sang not a single drop!

Lucky them ! Finally they have the sea and tourism witll improve !

 

:-)

 

 

Lucky them ! Finally they have the sea and tourism witll improve !

 

:-)

 

 

 

very funny, i hope one day you experiment it too

Easy to write sensationalist headlines. Truth is every year people who live in the flood plains of the River Mun in Meuang Ubon are flooded out. They know it and expect it and they have campsites on higher ground pre-arranged with the help of authorities which they occupy for 3 months. They could choose to live elsewhere.

 

OK - I know that they probably cannot afford to find a new place - though I suspect many choose to continue to live there as a voluntary economic decision. I also know that there are many people (anywhere in Thailand) who unexpectedly get flooded out and deserve our sympathy. I'm not naturally hard-hearted particularly when it comes to fellow-Isaanites - I'm just saying that journalistic sensationalism and the implication that floods in the North-East are life-devastating is often misplaced.

 

We often return to Thailand and fly to Ubon R each year late August or early September.  Water is usually everywhere, so this seems fairly normal to me.  Now and then, it can get a bit high if the rain comes too fast or for too long.    If you notice, every new home in the village is built up so the rain runs off on the neighbors's homes.  :)  just saying

Here in western part of Khon Kaen we are happy for every drop of rain.

Crop is dying.

So eastern part of Isan is flooded, but most of Isan is terribly dry.

ubonjoe I hope you and your family are safe and well

Easy to write sensationalist headlines. Truth is every year people who live in the flood plains of the River Mun in Meuang Ubon are flooded out. They know it and expect it and they have campsites on higher ground pre-arranged with the help of authorities which they occupy for 3 months. They could choose to live elsewhere.
 
OK - I know that they probably cannot afford to find a new place - though I suspect many choose to continue to live there as a voluntary economic decision. I also know that there are many people (anywhere in Thailand) who unexpectedly get flooded out and deserve our sympathy. I'm not naturally hard-hearted particularly when it comes to fellow-Isaanites - I'm just saying that journalistic sensationalism and the implication that floods in the North-East are life-devastating is often misplaced.

Greetings.  I do not understand your posting and complaint.  Words have meaning, and this is an unusually well written news report ... and nothing more.  There is nothing "sensational" about it.  It states simple facts, and uses the English language perfectly.

Example:

Devastating (Oxford Dictionary) - Highly destructive or damaging

It goes on to report what efforts are in progress to ensure the safety and comfort of those in harm's way.

Yes, tropical depressions in the region / monsoons are very predictable, and this is a story as old as time. 

Sort of not getting what ax you are grinding.  You clearly know Thailand and the Isaan  .. so know the grace. humor and patience they have in the face of this.

No one is bitching about this ... but you.  Which I find quite odd.

 

Allways a bloody know it all will stick his oar in, go get a life.

 

Easy to write sensationalist headlines. Truth is every year people who live in the flood plains of the River Mun in Meuang Ubon are flooded out. They know it and expect it and they have campsites on higher ground pre-arranged with the help of authorities which they occupy for 3 months. They could choose to live elsewhere.

 

OK - I know that they probably cannot afford to find a new place - though I suspect many choose to continue to live there as a voluntary economic decision. I also know that there are many people (anywhere in Thailand) who unexpectedly get flooded out and deserve our sympathy. I'm not naturally hard-hearted particularly when it comes to fellow-Isaanites - I'm just saying that journalistic sensationalism and the implication that floods in the North-East are life-devastating is often misplaced.

Greetings.  I do not understand your posting and complaint.  Words have meaning, and this is an unusually well written news report ... and nothing more.  There is nothing "sensational" about it.  It states simple facts, and uses the English language perfectly.

Example:

Devastating (Oxford Dictionary) - Highly destructive or damaging

It goes on to report what efforts are in progress to ensure the safety and comfort of those in harm's way.

Yes, tropical depressions in the region / monsoons are very predictable, and this is a story as old as time. 

Sort of not getting what ax you are grinding.  You clearly know Thailand and the Isaan  .. so know the grace. humor and patience they have in the face of this.

No one is bitching about this ... but you.  Which I find quite odd.

 

 

 

 You're clearly NOT an Isanjero.