Some photos of the current state of the recently completed jetty in That Phanom.

Perhaps a little more attention to historic river levels would have been appropriate prior to construction?

The Mekong River Commission forecasts another rise of 1.4m until Wednesday, and that is still 1.2m below flood level.

Guess we'll have to use the old bamboo plank again for a while...

 

... gonna be some mangled boat props a bit lateron

 

and they just won't understand why!!

As usual every year.....Up and down....

Shows how much of the rainy season has been concentrated in the north this year. In Lower Isaan it has been very much drier as evidenced by the lowest late August levels of the Mun I've seen in the 9 years I've been here. Usually tents start apperaing on the ring-road around now. My local reservoir in souther Sisaket province is now drier than it usually is in mid May at the end  of the dry season.

 

The farmers need more rain and I need more rain to partially replace my swimming pool water (not many people realise that pool water gets a bit dodgy after a few years as the chemicals you put in leave behind solids that build up and eventually screw up the chemical stability of your pool; normally in Thailand you can expect the natural rainy season to extend the replacement cycle).  

22 hours ago, BOBAKAT said:

As usual every year.....Up and down....

well, you'd think they'd get their levels right than...

this is what it looked like just now:

A lot of water that will end up deposited in the South China Sea! shame some couldn't be diverted to be used by Isaan farmers? off course that is that is an unreasonable expectation as some money would need to be diverted away from the high profile Mega projects centered around Bangkok!  

9 minutes ago, CGW said:

A lot of water that will end up deposited in the South China Sea! shame some couldn't be diverted to be used by Isaan farmers? off course that is that is an unreasonable expectation as some money would need to be diverted away from the high profile Mega projects centered around Bangkok!  

together with all the junk and plastic bottles, shopping bags and styrofoam? perhaps the chinese can build some new islands from all this crap?

at least the locals are doing their best to collect usable fire wood out of these tons of debris...