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Anyone else sick of all the rain? Bring on the drought...:-)


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Apart from the odd down pour in the night, never seen any rain, boiling hot and bone dry here.

Rained 3 times (in the night) that I am aware of in the last two months.

You must be sleeping under a rock??

Thanks for that, but no I dont, and we dont all live in Pattaya either.

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"Bring on The Drought" - Looks like this is a wish that is already coming true... http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/

Unfortunately, humans have proved to be inefficient water users. (The average hamburger takes 2,400 liters, or 630 gallons, of water to produce, and many water-intensive crops, such as cotton, are grown in arid regions.)

According to the United Nations, water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.

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Never mind that the OP pictures are all up side down.... here in Bkk we have rain fall maybe once a week

where by years ago it was a daily downpour....

You can't say "Here in Bangkok" .. you have to be more precise.

I was on Asoke and it poured down. The road started flooding, I jumped in a taxi, went along Petchaburi Road and after about 500 metres (before Ital/Thai Tower it was bone dry. Arrived at Thong Lor... it didn't rain one drop all night.

I have experiences like this nearly every day. The rain here, at the moment, is very local.

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No rain here in bkk. Yesterday was first day for weeks where we had rain.

Well, here in Bangkok we have rain every other day.

In fact some days the garden is flooded for a couple of hours

It really depends where you are.

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thailand isnt just pattaya,

thailand needs more rain, we havnt had a very good rainy season again, bring on the rain,

if we dont get rain the price of your rice will double,

Price double? Wanna split the difference and get a "buy now" deal ? Got 1 tonne grade A Jasmine excess available... wink.png lol

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So on top of all the other crap you guys have to deal with in Pattaya, the weather sucks too? I can never understand why anyone would choose to live in that place.

May be because in Pattaya we don't get smoked out 6 months a year?

Lived in Chiang Mai for three years last decade and 3 years this decade. Weather in CM is definitely better IMO and the the outdoors activities are far superior. Pattaya though is better in many other aspects. Quality of life is subjective and in many cases probably a worthless measurement. As Berkshire rants about Pattaya but has, I assume, never lived, little experience of actually living in Pats I wonder why. Does it decrease his insecurities of living Thailand? I love Thailand because of its wild side, incredible cuisine, and spectrum of choices. Bershire, where in Thailand do you live? What do you hate about Pattaya specifically? Are you religious?

Have homes in a few areas of Thailand and Pattaya has more to offer than the others. Raced(half marathon) in Rayong last weekend and always others to exercise and socialise. Yacht club down the street and health clubs everywhere. Oh yes, the taboo!!!!!!!, there also beautiful women and sex oriented entertainment. If a woman offers her body to my extremely large organ is that really evil? After all she told me I was sexy. Berkshire get over your insecurities.

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I have been here (Jomtien) since August. Only two really good rains and a dozen or so

sprinkles. Not much rain at all as far as I am concerned. Although I do look forward to

the temperature and humidity dropping any day now. blink.png

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thailand isnt just pattaya,

thailand needs more rain, we havnt had a very good rainy season again, bring on the rain,

if we dont get rain the price of your rice will double,

Here in Phuket it is hot and dry as it has been for most of this year. We get an occasional 5 minute shower and that is all. Send us your rain!

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Anyone that "Lives" more than a month here knows where to go & at which times to go. Go home..."Tourist"! If you live here less than 300 days a year, you're a part-timer

It always amazes me that the same people who "know" how bad things are in Pattaya also claim they would never come here or who apparently spent all of their one or two visits to Pattaya in the same venues they supposedly so revile. They "doth protest too much, methinks," and reveal more than they intend about themselves.

Most of us who live in Pattaya easily avoid the comparatively limited areas that cater to the sex tourists.

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Yes, the 15 minutes of rain (three out of the last 5 days) in Pattaya is quite unbearable. Read today's Post and see how worried the government is of the drought. Warning of water cutbacks and telling people to store water. That, of course, will make the shortages worse. Bring on the real monsoons!

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Anyone that "Lives" more than a month here knows where to go & at which times to go. Go home..."Tourist"! If you live here less than 300 days a year, you're a part-timer

It always amazes me that the same people who "know" how bad things are in Pattaya also claim they would never come here or who apparently spent all of their one or two visits to Pattaya in the same venues they supposedly so revile. They "doth protest too much, methinks," and reveal more than they intend about themselves.

Most of us who live in Pattaya easily avoid the comparatively limited areas that cater to the sex tourists.

What attracted you to Pattaya and when?

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Next year 2016 drought has started up here in rural Khampaeng Phet up by the Mae Wong national park.

The PuYai Ban officially announced that the water supply has been shut down as there is not enough water in the klong to supply the villages household consumption.

He/we have no idea when it will come back on like but this year 2015 it was cut in mid January until mid August, about 7 months. I just hope we get some rain in by April or May otherwise it will be a grim year in 2016.

I have lived here nearly 12 years and I have never known it to be as bad as this.

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Anyone that "Lives" more than a month here knows where to go & at which times to go. Go home..."Tourist"! If you live here less than 300 days a year, you're a part-timer

Some of us are not obliged to stay in locales that do not meet our standards. No one sane sticks around during Songkran, and I am quite happy to be outside of Thailand when dengue and malaria infections are at their peak.

Dengue...malaria...what century are you from? Thailand is an industrialized Nation!

PM calls for destruction of mosquito breeding grounds

http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/pm-calls-for-destruction-of-mosquito-breeding-grounds/121910/

Media will always exist. Mossies aren't that bad. Live Issan & they don't bother that much, small flies are much worse. Want a mosquito problem, go live in Lao.

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