Unseasonably strong storm drowns Pattaya

PATTAYA:--An unseasonably strong tropical storm brought four hours of heavy rain to Pattaya and flooding that many believe is only a preview of things to come this year.

Residents have been eager to see whether much-touted improvements to Pattaya’s flood drainage system - including the digging of a cache basin along the railway road and dredging of several canals - would make a difference. The answer quickly became obvious March 24: No.

Flood runoff became hip-deep in the usual areas in Pattaya and combined with foul, black water backwashed out of inundated sewers. From Second Road to Jomtien Second Road, the Central Pattaya Market and Jomtien’s Lan Pho Market, and Beach Road to Soi Buakaow. Motorbikes got stuck and water poured like waterfalls onto the beaches, cutting huge gouges in the sand.

The Sanam Muay community on Soi Buakaow suffered almost a meter of deep flood water. On both sides of the railway parallel road between Khao Noi and Khao Talo, runoff got as high as half a car. Police blocked the road to detour traffic onto Sukhumvit where a subterranean tunnel is being built, again raising doubts about promises by engineers that it won’t flood.

- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/unseasonably-strong-storm-drowns-pattaya-45994#sthash.Zs9qvhAS.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2015-04-03

Oh noooooooo.......I put the jinx in Pattaya since I came there.

But don't worry Pattayans, I'll do some exorcism on the bad spirits before I come and settle there.

Could do with a good wash ,anyway.

regards Worgeordie

Its good to see they have solved the flooding problems in Pattaya

Its good to see they have solved the flooding problems in Pattaya

I don't think they can even solve those problems or Pattaya Beach would look like a sewage plant with big *ss pipes beneath every Soi.

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