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Frantic efforts to protect Ayutthaya's inner town and parts of its key industrial estate have failed, forcing the government to order state officials to prepare for emergency evacuations in 10 provinces.
Patients are evacuated on a rubber boat by navy officers from the flooded Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Hospital in Ayutthaya’s Muang district yesterday. PHOTOS BY PATTANAPONG HIRUNARD
Under orders from Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, officials in the 10 Central Plains provinces are authorised to decide when and if evacuations will be carried out.
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Discussion 10 : 10/10/2011 at 07:08 PM10
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D5, color coded maps showing flood areas would ruin business for construction companies that build their residential "villes" in flood areas, where they can buy the land for cheap, and is just as likely to happen as an aerial monitoring of the illegal deforestation activities of the logging barons.
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Discussion 9 : 10/10/2011 at 06:44 PM9
It's very disheartening to see how Thais try to overcome such serious crisis. Well it's about bad karma, which would be gone soon after some amount of sacrifices.
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Discussion 8 : 10/10/2011 at 04:31 PM8
It won't be long before every front page of newspaper screams "Drought! worst in 10 years" You see, when it rains and our roof leaks, we put a bucket under the leak. When it stops raining and the sun comes out, we say "No need to fix the roof, it's not raining anymore." Thst's Thai attitude. Flood, drought, flood and drought.
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Discussion 7 : 10/10/2011 at 11:47 AM7
I was watching a live coverage on Ch7 showing a breaching of the dikes. Apparently they, out of the lack of common sense, have built 2 lines of dike, about 5m from each other. When the outer line was breached, the second line was then completely destroyed by the rushing current. What a pitty because they could have combined them into one single (and much stronger) line of dike.
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Discussion 6 : 10/10/2011 at 10:05 AM6
"Whatever could go wrong, went wrong. So, what's next?" Early and severe winter, with heavy rain ? "There could be a miscalculation in terms of the amount of water. There could be more floodwater than estimated" That's for sure. Must have been listening to the NASA AGW loon who was solely predicting strong El Nino for this summer and ignoring the fact that he's got a 0.00 batting avg for the past 40 years.
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Discussion 5 : 10/10/2011 at 09:43 AM5
Maybe it would be helpful to make a color coded map showing flooded areas and areas that are prone to flood in the future so people can get an idea of what to expect .
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Discussion 4 : 10/10/2011 at 09:43 AM4
Your being a little harsh, I live in Korat and the city has done a lot of flood mitigation work over the dry season. Fortunately we haven't had any major flooding this year.
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Discussion 3 : 10/10/2011 at 08:49 AM3
There is a tiny little bit of positive news here: "Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi admitted yesterday the National Flood Relief Centre had missed the mark on the severity of the flooding." I warned two days ago that his optimism was baseless. Now, for the first time since long, a Minister actually admits he was wrong, although he blames it on the National Flood Relief Centre.
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Discussion 2 : 10/10/2011 at 08:41 AM2
"There could be a miscalculation in terms of the amount of water. There could be more floodwater than estimated," This is what happens when you sit around all dry season doing nothing. Last years floods were bad and should have been an lesson to the authorities that they needed to work all year round to prepare for the floods coming this year. As we can see, it looks like there was little to know preparation all year leading up tp this flood. Next year will be worse.
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Discussion 1 : 10/10/2011 at 04:30 AM1
Whatever could go wrong, went wrong. So, what's next?
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