Lights out and transport chaos as heavy rain hits Suvarnabhumi Airport

 

Image: Sanook

 

BANGKOK: -- "Swampy" lived up to its nickname on Wednesday night as heavy rains caused transport chaos for passengers wanting to get home.

 

The area around the ground floor public taxi rank was inundated with water to a depth of up to 60 centimeters making it impossible for taxis to enter the area, reported Sanook. 

 

Passengers had to scramble up to the fourth floor to see if they could get a taxi with many waiting for up to three hours for a lift.

 

Reporters on the scene observed that many taxi drivers refused to take Thai people preferring to take foreigners to their destinations.

 

Cars and motorbikes were seen stranded on the ground floor as flood water swamped them. Some lights went out at the airport for about two minutes before emergency systems kicked into place. 

 

The storm occurred about 8.30 pm.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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Nice to see that the taxi drivers were putting the interests of the tourists first.................

The genius of building a huge international airport on top of a swamp.

 

Get that sinking feeling?

Scary.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

many taxi drivers refused to take Thai people preferring to take foreigners to their destinations.

Taxi drivers had a choice?

First class airport ! Thais should be proud

'Reporters on the scene observed that many taxi drivers refused to take Thai people preferring to take foreigners to their destinations.'

 

And the police and/or airport authorities were diligently taking the number of all those taxis and arresting the drivers for refusing fares, and banning them from the airport in future? That's what they always say they would do.

Yesterday's news ?

2 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Taxi drivers had a choice?

i thought they were not supposed to reject any passenger.

could they not have directed that the tax pick up  to operate from the departure level. passengers could have been informed accordingly and taxis could have easily entered that "temporary" pick up point until the waters had subsided sufficiently to operate from the existing  taxi point.

The famous Thai "planning" strikes again! You would think when you invest billions in a new National airport you put the first floor higher than any possible flooding level.

The word planning does not exist in Thailand, does it?


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BKK has the tallest control tower of any airport in the world..... as the saying goes - first to know its raining but last to know there is a flood....

You can read the history of the airport on WiKi... first drained of water in 1973......!

And they still don't have enough toilets.

...wow...

I know.

My 5th floor apatment looks in that general direction, and it was a heavy thunderstom with torrential rain for  a good hour at least.

A lot of waer all at once.

 

As I look out in tht direction tonight there is lighming there  now.

That seems to be the area the storms like in Bangkok this week.

3 days in a row, but last night was  the worst.

 

Edited August 25, 20169 yr by IMA_FARANG

5 hours ago, petermik said:

Nice to see that the taxi drivers were putting the interests of the tourists first.................

You're sarcastic, are you

They think it's easier to make some illegal money with foreigners

 

this makes it all feel better:

 

a bit of harmony in the air for once, no rain, no chaos

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/mOBQXuu_5Zw

 

 

It sounds like an electric shock problem waiting to happen.

In fairness to the airport, it was a big storm with heavy downpour and it rained all night. Lots of the areas around were flooded and even this evening water in ocal khlongs is edging over the brim of the khlong. Don't think it had anything at all to do with Swampy being unable to cope with flooding (during the massive national flood a few years back, areas around were flooded but not the airport).

Edited August 25, 20169 yr by Bredbury Blue

6 hours ago, petermik said:

Nice to see that the taxi drivers were putting the interests of the tourists first.................

Metred ?  Haha

Edited August 25, 20169 yr by kingalfred

15 hours ago, petermik said:

Nice to see that the taxi drivers were putting the interests of the tourists first.................

 

10 hours ago, sweatalot said:

You're sarcastic, are you

They think it's easier to make some illegal money with foreigners

 

9 hours ago, kingalfred said:

Metred ?  Haha

10 hours ago, sweatalot said:

 

10 hours ago, sweatalot said:

 

I replied to a statement on TVF that foreigners were given special consideration by taxi drivers regarding the flooding at Swampy,any other insinuations that posters on here assume  are entirely facetious 

Taxi drivers at Suvarnabhumi airport.....take a bow 

52 minutes ago, petermik said:

 

 

I replied to a statement on TVF that foreigners were given special consideration by taxi drivers regarding the flooding at Swampy,any other insinuations that posters on here assume  are entirely facetious 

Taxi drivers at Suvarnabhumi airport.....take a bow 

Bad, bad, bad very very very bad man lol ;-)

16 hours ago, petermik said:

Nice to see that the taxi drivers were putting the interests of the tourists first.................

Tourists tip, Thais, not so much.

3 hours ago, Ulic said:

Tourists tip, Thais, not so much.

Also thai,s know how much the correct fare should be,many of the tourists don,t............

22 hours ago, tubby johnson said:

The genius of building a huge international airport on top of a swamp.

 

Get that sinking feeling?

 

Runways are a perfect use for filled swamp land.  Perfectly fine over 99% of the time, and when they flood, wait an hour or two and start flying again.  

 

Try reopening a mall, a theater or a hotel after it's been filled with water.

On 8/26/2016 at 1:01 PM, impulse said:

 

Runways are a perfect use for filled swamp land.  Perfectly fine over 99% of the time, and when they flood, wait an hour or two and start flying again.  

 

Try reopening a mall, a theater or a hotel after it's been filled with water.

 

Try reopening an airport terminal after it's been filled with water.

Need to invite that Oak Island crew to drain the swamp and look for Japanese WWII gold under the terminal.