Heavy rain brings "flash floods" to Pattaya Friday evening

[rooster59]

Heavy rain brings "flash floods" to Pattaya Friday evening

 

Heavy and continual rain in Pattaya on Friday led to a situation nothing short of flash flood proportions.

 

Pictures and video on Facebook showed a motorcyclist on Khao Noi Road battling valiantly against the raging waters - only to fail as the torrent overwhelms him and he falls off his bike. 

 

Passers-by rushed to give him assistance.

 

Daily News reported that the rain came down fast and heavy with parts of the city resembling the sea.

 

"Sonram Red" posted the motorcyclist picture while "Nokiiz Naphatsorn" uploaded shots of the area in front of Amporn  Seafood on Sai 3 Road.

 

 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-10-29

 

[DavisH]

Is this runoff from hilly areas? The water looks pretty muddy. 

[lee b]

It could clean up the place a bit !

[chicowoodduck]

Sounds just like Pattaya klang about the 5 pm hour on Friday...?

 

Could have done the Australian crawl all the way home to the Big C Extra area.....ugly...???

[Rimmer]

View from my pool deck, sometime after 5-30 pm Friday just before it hit 

[Grubster]

And then the rains came

[elgenon]

Might be a good idea to take the rugs off the grates that provide drainage.

[impulse]

Giving a whole new meaning to "beachfront resort"

[thailand49]

And they continue to dig and put in drains too small to contain the volume throughout the city.  You want to see a mess, go out to the Darkside and see what they are doing to Soi Siam Country.  In has been going and going on for as long as they been digging the tunnel on Sukhumvit. They dug up one side of the road, put in drains that are 2 feet above the current road. Then they decided to leave to work on another project and left the road a mess unfinished and due to the rain the road is starting to cave in?

[mikebell]

All week Bangkok Post weather forecast for Pattaya has been 'sunny!'

[impulse]

16 minutes ago, mikebell said:

All week Bangkok Post weather forecast for Pattaya has been 'sunny!'

 

Forecasting rain would hurt tourist numbers, and could lead to defamation charges.

[Stargeezr]

Wow  it looks bad.  I hope the weather improves in December. For sure in January as I want to

have a happy visit with hot , hot days and evenings. Bring on the Chang.

Geezer

[onemorechang]

19 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Wow  it looks bad.  I hope the weather improves in December. For sure in January as I want to

have a happy visit with hot , hot days and evenings. Bring on the Chang.

Geezer

 

Will be hot as and no big rain then   and Chang will be cool

in the right bars.

 

[joepattaya1961]

Floods last Wednesday, last Friday, yesterday and most probably many many days to come.

 

[gk10002000]

21 hours ago, DavisH said:

Is this runoff from hilly areas? The water looks pretty muddy. 

no.  the entire terrain in that area slopes downward to the bay.  It doesn't take much of a rainfall to get the drains backed up.  It has been that way for years and will continue that way.  The water is filthy and full of debris and garbage, but it really isn't from hills.  The interesting thing will be how that new tunnel/underpass thing works out.  If they really did design the pumps there to keep that dry during a rainstorm, then they will be pumping an awful lot of water around or over to someplace. 

[onemorechang]

7 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

no.  the entire terrain in that area slopes downward to the bay.  It doesn't take much of a rainfall to get the drains backed up.  It has been that way for years and will continue that way.  The water is filthy and full of debris and garbage, but it really isn't from hills.  The interesting thing will be how that new tunnel/underpass thing works out.  If they really did design the pumps there to keep that dry during a rainstorm, then they will be pumping an awful lot of water around or over to someplace. 

 

Now you done it,   they will be here soon foaming at the mouth

smashing fists on the keyboards. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, get your hard hat on !!!!!!!!!

[fish monger]

It was nice to see some folks helping that person with there motor bike.....

[petermik]

8 hours ago, fish monger said:

It was nice to see some folks helping that person with there motor bike.....

He was thai,if it were a farang then that maybe another matter............

[onemorechang]

13 minutes ago, petermik said:

He was thai,if it were a farang then that maybe another matter............

 

In that situation,   yes the Thais would help you Farang or not.

[jacko45k]

Yes, this happens nearly every year despite the 'valiant' efforts to prevent it. (While in reality continuing yet more construction that makes it worse). Last year was very dry and people seem to have forgotten this usually more frequent flooding.

[jacko45k]

4 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Wow  it looks bad.  I hope the weather improves in December. For sure in January as I want to

have a happy visit with hot , hot days and evenings. Bring on the Chang.

Geezer

Yes, that is the dry season, I wouldn't worry.

By then flooding will be a distant memory and we will be back to covering drains and filling them with trash.

Edited October 30, 2016 by jacko45k

[Sooo Upto Me]

Bottom of Soi Kanoi always gets like that, I used to live the top end of it.

[Don Mega]

6 hours ago, thailand49 said:

And they continue to dig and put in drains too small to contain the volume throughout the city.  You want to see a mess, go out to the Darkside and see what they are doing to Soi Siam Country.  In has been going and going on for as long as they been digging the tunnel on Sukhumvit. They dug up one side of the road, put in drains that are 2 feet above the current road. Then they decided to leave to work on another project and left the road a mess unfinished and due to the rain the road is starting to cave in?

 

Pretty sure the suk road tunnel started construction before January 25 this year.

[Golden Triangle]

They finished laying new drains and resurfacing the road I live on a few months back, now after all this rain the drain grates are full of rubbish, leaves & sand so are effectively blocked, does anyone come and clean them ? No. Do the businesses and suchlike that face the road suffer ? Yes.

 

It really wouldn't take much for City Hall to get some of these.

[thailand49]

31 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

 

Pretty sure the suk road tunnel started construction before January 25 this year.

You are right about the latest construction but go down further Siam Country,  where the power plant is or further down from the market. This started as a small hole as they started digging it became bigger they found their were a like a river running under the road. The more they dug the larger it got? 

Go down pass Soi 13, on Siam.. leading up to where the signal lights are and they been working on that for at least a year. I seems done but  one side is closed off.

Then there is the road that starts near the bottom of NernPludwan, 7/11 you make a right and that road leads straight up to the Pattana International school. They been working on that road for close to two years and the top is still unfinished.

Last Tuesday, in spite of many of the road they have dug up and put in new drains there was still folding. The bottom of NernPludwan Soi 41? and beyond was 3 plus feet high and they added new drains up and down that road.

The sad thing about the flooding on the Darkside and construction on Siam Country is how many businesses on that road has closed due to the construction. I use this road daily and I can attest to 24 shops that closed.  The biggest and hardest hit is the restaurant on the corner of Siam and Sukhumvit.

[Rimmer]

A troll post /flame also one reply has been removed

[joepattaya1961]

This SSCC road is rather funny.......major parts of the road are being lifted by 30-40 cm.

For sure this will let the water run-off side-ways............