Chiang Mai downtown under water
By The Nation

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Heavy rains caused severe flooding in downtown Chiang Mai early Friday.

 

The roads around Si Ping Muang area and Pratu Gom area were flooded at around 5am, with water level a metre high in one spot.

 

Jensak Limpiti, director of the Chiang Mai Irrigation Office, said officials had used several water pumps to try to drain the floodwaters.

 

He said so far 11 water pumps have been installed at various spots around Chiang Mai downtown to ease floods and 19 more would be installed on Friday.

 

Officials would be on standby at the 30 water pumps around the clock throughout the rainy season, he added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30316362

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-05-26

By all means, please pump out the water after it collects, rather than fixing the drainage system so that it doesn't collect.

What a shame, I was going to go drop 4000 THB on beers at Limp Rock this afternoon, even had an extra thousand set aside for service charge sand VAT.  I guess I will just go torch some 500s instead, same end result.

time for some infrastructure upgrades

Atypical CM planning ahead - NONE.  That city is in big trouble - way to many people now, and far too little infrastructure - and very little room to put any. No railway and no buses - and no way they can ever have them. Cant even widen the roads. Adding water runoff canals for rain that comes once a year - no chance. It will only get worse year by year.  But hey - at least the smoke/smog would have been washed away - sure dont miss that.

here in PATTAYA the flood situation is under control, ''monitored 24/7''

21 hours ago, webfact said:

and 19 more would be installed on Friday

so they had them but hadnt installed them; o yes i see, After the flooding

Big sewer pipes cost much money to install.   Flood water would go away by itself. 

16 hours ago, ELVIS123456 said:

Atypical CM planning ahead - NONE.  That city is in big trouble - way to many people now, and far too little infrastructure - and very little room to put any. No railway and no buses - and no way they can ever have them. Cant even widen the roads. Adding water runoff canals for rain that comes once a year - no chance. It will only get worse year by year.  But hey - at least the smoke/smog would have been washed away - sure dont miss that.

Or just live on the west side of the city, on higher ground.  

8 hours ago, mok199 said:

here in PATTAYA the flood situation is under control, ''monitored 24/7''

under the bts near soi cowboy in bangkok there is six inches water

outside my hotel on sukhamvite road now !

 

and im stuck here until ????

 

might be no beer for me tonight ; (

 

dave2

Would be foolish not to bring your rubbers to Sukhumvit.

5 hours ago, KhonKaenKowboy said:

Would be foolish not to bring your rubbers to Sukhumvit.

 

 

Just go around the corner there a short walk...

 

Of course it never floods anywhere else.