Flood centre tells Bangkokians to take a vacation

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Flood centre tells Bangkokians to take a vacation

Published: 27/10/2011 at 06:38 PM
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The government's Flood Relief Operations Centre (Froc) has advised people in Bangkok to leave the capital for their own safety this long weekend, if they can.

The centre said on Thursday that Bangkokians should take the opportunity during the special long holiday weekend to visit tourist destinations or to go and stay with relatives in flood-free provinces.

The suggestions came after a prediction that the floodwater from the North will peak in Bangkok soon, and be made worse by peak high tides from Oct 28 to 31, which will cause the floodwaters from the North to bank up.

Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra

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maeab
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Discussion 19 : 02/11/2011 at 06:44 PM19
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They say take a vacation, I think they have been on vacation from the start of this whole man made disaster.
franklin
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Discussion 18 : 30/10/2011 at 05:01 PM18
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I'm waiting for an article titled,"Bangkokians tell flood centre to take a vacation.
dao
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Discussion 17 : 28/10/2011 at 04:14 AM17
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Please save your separated society I,m red your yellow ramble for after the flood .There are so many more important things at stake.
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Discussion 16 : 28/10/2011 at 02:44 AM16
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What a plan! To think, it took them since July to come up with this.
drake
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Discussion 15 : 28/10/2011 at 02:09 AM15
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D6:
Please note the bus in the background, that water is 10cm high at best.

OTOH, I was on a bus down from Nan a month ago and the situation all the way down from NakonSawan was dismal then.

Those who want to leave Bangkok and able to should have left.
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Discussion 14 : 28/10/2011 at 02:09 AM14
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Disc 11 - "Whatever could Our Friends in the North East have done to Bangkok dwellers within recent memory so as to make them so apathetic to others' problems?" Good question because they have been apathetic and have looked down on the people from the Northeast since I was a child, and that's a Lotta years.
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Discussion 13 : 28/10/2011 at 01:22 AM13
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D5
The S&T Minister already played his ace in the hole.
Tow The Bridge...
NorDevil
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Discussion 12 : 28/10/2011 at 01:06 AM12
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To D #4 Who should we listen to ? So far just about every single person in the goverment or at the Flood center has told us differnt things ! Just a week ago I was told that the area I live would be safe.Less than 10 min away from Flood HQ no both that center and the area I live are cut off by the water.I have seen several places that there has been warnings given to the goverment for nearly 2 months that this would happen.Typical that they first try to do something when it is already too late.What does the goverment do to help their people,to try and make them strong ? They say " We have given up . . . . run . . . . " What a bunch of loosers.
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Discussion 11 : 27/10/2011 at 11:45 PM11
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Quite, D7 - Whatever could Our Friends in the North East have done to Bangkok dwellers within recent memory so as to make them so apathetic to others' problems?

And where does your beloved leaderene live again?
deanc
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Discussion 10 : 27/10/2011 at 10:52 PM10
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Cassie, you may be confusing your presents circumstances as gurantee of future performance! 1 week ago my friend was doing volunteer work at the Domestic Airport, 2 days later, her compund was flooed and she has camped on the second floor of her hoouse in ChonLada compound Bang Bua Tong, ever since, almost 2 metres deep, crocodiles found in the compund, snakes, garbage floating and breeding ground water born disease, as she slowly diminishes her supply of water, Ma Ma noodles and waiting for the power to be cut off.

Yes dont Panic Cassie but try to imagine beyond your own tiny little circumstances and you realise people are suffering, in a way failing to imagine, is something the powers that be are alos guilty of.