BMA tries to protect city's heart

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BMA tries to protect city's heart

Published: 9/11/2011 at 07:03 AM
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is making an all-out effort to drain floodwater from the northern outskirts through Khlong Bang Sue in the hope of protecting the heart of Bangkok.

Massive runoff from the north surging toward Phahon Yothin, Vibhavadi Rangsit and Ratchadaphisek roads are being blocked by Khlong Bang Sue which cuts across the three roads at Chatuchak intersection, near Sutthisan intersection and in front of the Chaophya Park Hotel respectively.

The BMA has installed 17 water pumps at Khlong Bang Sue and is running them at full capacity to drain overflow into the Chao Phraya River. But overflow from Khlong Bang Sue has flowed through sewers in nearby areas.

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Discussion 20 : 10/11/2011 at 08:05 AM20
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Issan people are laughing at those elite bangkokians who yelled loudly with panic when their feet are wetted by a few centimeter of flood water.
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Discussion 19 : 09/11/2011 at 05:02 PM19
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Disc 14.
Please try to imagine that all bank head offices located in Bangkok have to close for two weeks... what will happen ?
No in / out flow of money from abroad at all ... thereby the country will be at a total standstill.
We all have to row at the same time and in the same direction otherwise the boat sink.....so PLEASE STOP saying some are better or more important than others.
The biggest problem for the boat at the moment is that the person (read the Government) steering it does not know where to go, but all the people rowing are willing to work hard to reach the target as quick as possible.
And btw I wear slippers even in the trading business.
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Discussion 18 : 09/11/2011 at 03:16 PM18
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D16, Spiceman,

Everything is relative anyway.
A lot is being made about Bangkok being flooded, it's so bad, it's the economic heart, etc, etc.

In Manila people are in waist deep water multiple times per year.
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Discussion 17 : 09/11/2011 at 03:14 PM17
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D16, Spiceman,

If I get it correctly, because Bangkok is at risk of being completely flooded, it suddenly becomes a full blown cathastrophe?

I suggest you go up north, and talk to the flood vicitms of 2010, 2009, 2008, etc that get this year after year after year, to find out what exactly constitutes a full blown cathastrophe.
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Discussion 16 : 09/11/2011 at 02:06 PM16
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I meant a full-blown catastrophe, not just ordinary floods like before!
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Discussion 15 : 09/11/2011 at 12:20 PM15
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One more thing, Bangkok is a market, this is where most of the goods generated by the economy is sold or traded. Traders can wear wellington boots, but I would be more worried about the 33 provinces that experienced flooding, because they in many cases produce most of Thailand's GDP and number one crop. Rice!! I see a rough year with food prices going astronomically high and the govenment being forced to open up the country to imports otherwise they will face rebellion in the streets. Once again, this will probably be good for Thailand, it will spur investment and create opportunities here for a better integration between the foreign and local economies.
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Discussion 14 : 09/11/2011 at 12:11 PM14
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Saying that Bangkok is the engine of the economy is a farce at best. Yes Bangkok is the biggest city, and because of that there is a lot of industrial estates in Bangkok, but a majority of it lies south of bangkok between Lam chabang and the border of Chonburi. Anyone who goes to Pattaya knows that. Thailand is not going to stop because Bangkok gets wet. The writers and readers in this Newspaper are not going to like it, but Thailand will not stop. Actually, it might be good for Thailand, for years the government has been trying to promote industrialization outside of Bangkok. This flood might do what the politicians could not.
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Discussion 13 : 09/11/2011 at 12:01 PM13
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D10, Spiceman,

It did happen to Thailand before, from memory 1995 and 1983.

Where in 1995 part of Bangkok definitely was under water.

And against your popular belief, the weather patterns did change.
And so did the building density between north and the seashore since 1995.
And so did (worsening that is) the state of the flood mitigation possibilities.
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Discussion 12 : 09/11/2011 at 11:58 AM12
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The flood will surely come as both Government and BMA is no Moses.

Suggest to be mentally prepared as the success of both Government and BMA currently is allowing people to buy some time to evacuate.
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Discussion 11 : 09/11/2011 at 11:56 AM11
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Spiceman Disc#10:

This type of flood in Thailand has happened before just not in the last 50years. Weather patterns are changing world wide.
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