webfact Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Phetchaburi town submerged after river overflows PHETCHABURI: -- Phetchaburi town is now under water with almost all roads in the municipal areas being submerged after the Phetchaburi dam discharged excess water into the Phetchaburi river, causing it to overflow banks. The widespread flooding has forced several schools, particularly kindergarten and municipal schools in the town to close for at least four days. A section of the Phetkasem Highway passing Phetchaburi, particularly from Phetcharat hospital to Ban Lad, or from Kilometre 157-159 is now under 30-40 centimetres of water, posing difficulties for small motor vehicles to pass. Highway police were deployed on the highway to give advice to motorists driving to the South to use other alternative route instead. But for traffic to Bangkok, small vehicles can still pass the section as flood level is not high. In the town, unaware motorist trying to drive through the flooded area but later got stuck in flood almost reaching car roof top. Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/phetchaburi-town-submerged-after-river-overflows/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-11-02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bino Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Whose brilliant idea was it to open the gates and discharge all this water? Dam them! Was it really necessary? Was the dam about to overflow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey4u Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 How's the new immigration office, an indoor pool yet ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 ...they can do no right...yet...can do no wrong..... ...anybody responsible.....??? ...of course not..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 42 minutes ago, monkey4u said: How's the new immigration office, an indoor pool yet ?? The new immigration office is in Ta Yang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bark Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 There is no rice farming in this area; so they should released more water in August; as September always gets 3 time s the August amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reptile91602 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Just went through it . If just one half way intelligent soul were around they would knock a whole in the middle divider and the freeway would be clear in 20 minutes. But alas that doesn't exist much here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collins Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 On the contrary, there is a lot of rice farming in this area. Anyway, this event seems rather strange to me. The Kaeng Krachan reservoir feeding the Petchaburi river is nowhere full, 45% as of todays statistic and I can confirm this from my visit about 10 days ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugarcane24 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 3 hours ago, SOTIRIOS said: ...they can do no right...yet...can do no wrong..... ...anybody responsible.....??? ...of course not..... TIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Triangle Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I don't understand the thinking behind this release of water, if it was necessary why not just open the gates a teeny bit so the flow is controlled IE maybe a cm or 2 so that the river can take the increased flow without causing flooding and the level upstream is also reduced, or am I being stupid...........again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nausea Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Big mistake. Petchaburi is a big supporter. You don't want to piss off these guys. Also full of guns, if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Did they at least warn the town that the water would be coming? Ohh why do i even ask.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xircal Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 13 hours ago, webfact said: Phetchaburi town submerged after river overflows I think the headline should be amended to read "Phetchaburi town flooded after river overflows". Using the word "submerged" gives the impression that the whole town was underwater to the rooftops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook23 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Kin khao yang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Clearly photoshopped! The head- honcho said repeatedly, that there will be no flood...Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 12 hours ago, Collins said: On the contrary, there is a lot of rice farming in this area. Anyway, this event seems rather strange to me. The Kaeng Krachan reservoir feeding the Petchaburi river is nowhere full, 45% as of todays statistic and I can confirm this from my visit about 10 days ago... had a lot of rain here in the last 1o days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collins Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 6 hours ago, kannot said: had a lot of rain here in the last 1o days Interesting. So the water masses must have accumulated mostly downstream it seems. At least my garden pond will be completely filled up by now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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