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  • Thailand Weather UpdatesRescuers evacuate residents from Phitsanulok villages in north central Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 10:34, 02 September 2019
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    Rescuers evacuate residents from Phitsanulok villages in north central Thailand

    PHOTO: Phitsanulok HotNews A village in Phitsanulok’s Wang Thong district in north-central Thailand, has been totally inundated after a river burst its banks early this morning. Water started rising in the Fuangfah village in the Wang Thong district around 2.30am when the Wang Thong River overflowed. Rescuers rushed to the village by boat to evacuate the residents. Levels rose very…

  • Northern Thailand NewsTorrential rain in Thailand’s north and north-east from Podul
    ThaigerPublished: 08:05, 01 September 2019
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    Torrential rain in Thailand’s north and north-east from Podul

    ‘Podul’, the tropical storm that came out of the South China Sea and headed westward through Vietnam into the north of Thailand, has now weakened but inundated parts of the north-east and northern Thailand in its wake. Flooding in and around Khon Kaen has been reported to be as high as three metres with over 1,000 houses inundated. Homes and cars…

  • Northern Thailand NewsFarmlands flooded in Mukdahan from mountain run-off
    ThaigerPublished: 10:16, 25 August 2019
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    Farmlands flooded in Mukdahan from mountain run-off

    PHOTO: The Nation Some 10,000 rai of farmland and a main road have been inundated with run-off from mountains in Mukdahan, north-east Thailand near the Laos border and Mekong River. The roads were cut off yesterday morning. The Dong Luang district chief Somsak Boonchan says the runoff from the Phuphan Noi mountain range was caused by several days of heavy…

  • Environment NewsBangkok – that sinking feeling
    ThaigerPublished: 07:45, 29 July 2019
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    Bangkok – that sinking feeling

    The mighty Chao Phraya runs through the central plains and down into the flooding delta before heading out into the Gulf of Thailand. Great place for a city. Not surprisingly Bangkok suffers floods whenever the big rains come with most of the low-lying land around the delta only averaging around 1.5 metres above sea level. Whilst the city used to…

  • Koh Samui NewsSouthern provinces battered by heavy rains and floods
    ThaigerPublished: 08:29, 17 December 2018
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    Southern provinces battered by heavy rains and floods

    PHOTO: Flooded Samui roads – Facebook/Thunder Road Reporters “The city Mayor says the municipality had arranged for medical staff to be on stand-by to help patients at evacuation centres already set up to deal with potential flood crisis in Nakhon Si Thammarat.” Heavy rain has been battering the southern regions of the Gulf coast for the past few days and…

  • Hua Hin NewsRescuers get provisions into flooded Prachuab Khiri Khan district
    ThaigerPublished: 09:14, 11 November 2018
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    Rescuers get provisions into flooded Prachuab Khiri Khan district

    Army and rescue workers, loaded up with ready-made foods and drinking water, were visiting villages behind Chong Lom dam in Bang Saphan Noi district of Prachuab Khiri Khan yesterday after the area was cut off from the outside world. The only road into the district was flooded and had become impassable. Rescuers responded to a distress alert from Amporn Thaokruamat,…

  • Thailand NewsFloods sweep away bridge in Mae Hong Son
    ThaigerPublished: 12:41, 07 October 2018
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    Floods sweep away bridge in Mae Hong Son

    by Tossapon Boonpat A bridge in Mae Hong Son crucial to tourism and trade was swept away in a flash flood on Sunday. “We urgently need a Bailey bridge [to replace it temporarily], or else the flow of tourists and goods into Myanmar will be disrupted,” said Trairat Wanasirisuk, chief executive of the Tambon Mae Sam Lab Administrative Organisation. The…

  • Phuket NewsDams will cope with this weekend’s weather – Irrigation Department
    ThaigerPublished: 10:24, 08 September 2018
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    Dams will cope with this weekend’s weather – Irrigation Department

    The water regulation authorities say they’re ready for heavy rains forecast this weekend and the situation is under control. The National Water Resources Office and Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has confirmed that the authorities and the irrigation system were ready to receive large amounts of precipitation during the extraordinary wet period, which is affecting almost every part of the country.…

  • Hua Hin NewsPhetchaburi town prepares for a soggy weekend
    ThaigerPublished: 08:36, 09 August 2018
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    Phetchaburi town prepares for a soggy weekend

    Phetchaburi town residents have their mops, buckets and sandbags ready for a wet weekend as they fend off the run-off from upstream dams. The Royal Irrigation Department say they’ve done their best to stem the flow from the overflowing dams but expect the remaining floodwaters to hit the Muang district over the coming weekend. The department expects the volume of…

  • Northern Thailand NewsGood news from dams in the north-east
    ThaigerPublished: 17:11, 07 August 2018
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    Good news from dams in the north-east

    Whilst provinces bordering the Mekong River, and areas in Phetchaburi downstream of the hillside dams, are all under threat from flooding at the moment, the situation is a lot better in the lower north-east provinces. The Irrigation department has issued assurances today about the water situation covering some 77 dams in the region. The Nation reports that 77 reservoirs in…