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Expert tells Froc it must hasten runoff drainage

Published: 4/11/2011 at 04:45 PM
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Lat Krabang Industrial Estate in the east of Bangkok will be swamped by floods if rapidly advancing runoff cannot be drained quickly enough.

Yingluck lends a hand
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is surrounded by flood victims who turned up in large numbers to receive food donations from her on Song Prapha Road yesterday. The premier visited the residents of flooded areas in Don Muang and handed them flood survival necessities. CHANAT KATANYU

Somchet Thinaphong, chairman of the board of the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, yesterday urged the Flood Relief Operations Command (Froc) to speed the drainage of runoff threatening the estate or it would be flooded by overflow from the Saen Saep canal.

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oshi
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Discussion 30 : 04/11/2011 at 05:03 PM30
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Seeing Ms Ying Luck giving thigs to suffered people in today's newspaper, i feel sad, pittable and dejected. Many people might think that she has done well and got near people, but for me it's opposite. What not? There is no need to do like that. It's like a child who wants someone to comfort; moreover i think she needs more people's marks to support her on the government. The prime minister ought to take order ministers who are directly responsible for the incidents.If she can make people belive that they are safe from the flood or feel good and i think that it's better to do. Giving essential things by herself to suffering people is not important because she can order anyone who is ready to help all the time, but why this choice has been undone. Perhaps there is something hidden in her heart that you and i didn't know before!
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Discussion 29 : 04/11/2011 at 03:41 PM29
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@Disc22 MichaelBukit... Blame for the water lies with Mother Nature. Blame for the mismanagement and lousy communication lies with the Government.

I recall listening to the speeches from Ratchaprasong last year, in which Abhisit was blamed for the global recession and the low price of rice... I didn't see many UDD Supporters on here blaming economics and market forces.
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Discussion 28 : 04/11/2011 at 03:07 PM28
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#8 Hillfarang - When you said "I support TS in her efforts to help the people" I am sure it was just a slip of the pen. Whether a Freudian slip I will leave to others to speculate, but surely you meant "... YS in her efforts ...". I know, it is easy to mistake the pretend PM for the real PM.

I claim TYPO!!! Look at the keyboard: the "T" & "Y" are next to each other... :>))
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Discussion 27 : 04/11/2011 at 01:25 PM27
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Yingluck Shinawatra, facing the first test of her leadership, visited victims in the Don Mueang district in northern Bangkok, where an elderly man told her: ''You're here just for fun, not really to help, so don't come back.''
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Discussion 26 : 04/11/2011 at 01:23 PM26
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Resources, specially army, are already at its limits.
So far they can "control" the damage.
If BKK is fully flooded, it will be out of anyone's control.
And we got a real disaster of proportions we cannot even imagine. And not in economical terms.
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Discussion 25 : 04/11/2011 at 12:39 PM25
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"Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
If Yingluck managed to make water flow uphill, the response from our yellow shirt fans on this forum would be that she bribed gravity.

Spending some time with the people who really suffer achieve at least two goals.
1. Showing compassion
2. Getting feedback directly, not filtered through numerous layers of managers and ministers.
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Discussion 24 : 04/11/2011 at 12:18 PM24
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#8 Hillfarang - When you said "I support TS in her efforts to help the people" I am sure it was just a slip of the pen. Whether a Freudian slip I will leave to others to speculate, but surely you meant "... YS in her efforts ...". I know, it is easy to mistake the pretend PM for the real PM.
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Discussion 23 : 04/11/2011 at 11:56 AM23
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cassie Disc 11: "the inmates are running the asylum." - could not agree more.
The message is quite clear: shout louder than your neighbours and we'll flood them more than you, no matter what is good for the country.

As for Yingluck being out distributing food, they all do it (Abhisit did it too) and we all know that is about PR and nothing else - which is a necessary part of the job. Maybe the timing is not the best seeing that another dyke was selfishly destroyed last night and that is a far more pressing issue.

Disc 13 was very interesting and this should definitely get more coverage. Maybe Thais will realize how corruption hurts everyone, albeit slowly and discretely. But I doubt it.
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Discussion 22 : 04/11/2011 at 11:49 AM22
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@ Ianprince, why don’t you also blame the mother nature for pouring too much rains into Thailand? The next few months when there are no rain for farming and no water for everybody, you also say it is YS govt caused the drought and YS govt have to fix it too. If there is earthquake and tsunami it is also YS govt that make it happens.
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Discussion 21 : 04/11/2011 at 10:43 AM21
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I think bot airports will see this flood,
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