If you look at the street drainage in Singapore and Penang, they have really deep storm drains that are well maintained and always kept clean. Without any significant disruption from roadworks, new drainage and land-filling, Singapore and Malaysia HAVE LEARNED and KNOWS how to handle seasonal flash flooding. I doubt that Thailand ever will.

to be fair Singapore and Penang have had more then a hundred years on Pattaya to figure out their drainage. Also there are plenty of cities in the US and most other countries that have flooding problems so its not just Thais that have this learning problem

Oh please....!!! Are you people serious...??? How long have you lived on this planet...??? And you still haven't figured out the way things work yet..???

Nobody with the power to do so wants to prevent the flooding in Pattaya... Just like nobody with the power to do so wants to prevent cancer...

Money makes the world go around, and there is a helluva lot less money to be made in preventing something from happening than there is to be made from allowing it to happen time and time again and selling the band-aids every time it does happen...

Wake up people...! This sh!t ain't that hard to understand...

So how do Singapore and Penang fit into that theory................

What floods? If you live on low lying land, you really shouldn't complain when you get flooded out when it rains.

Edited May 19, 201610 yr by OMGImInPattaya