Flash-flood alerts for North

Post by **businessman** » August 26, 2005, 12:50 pm

Well we now have a one metre brown tidal mark along the river so a respite as long as it does not rain heavily upstream.

Post by **BangkokButcher** » August 26, 2005, 9:03 pm

Thats good to hear..

Post by **briang** » August 27, 2005, 3:33 am

Well that must be the first time a 1 metre brown tide mark has been good news!

Sorry but the old toilet humour will not stand down!

Post by **businessman** » August 27, 2005, 10:40 am

It's the poor old farmers i feel sorry for when we have flooding here as the land is very low lying either side of the main road and some have been flooded so often that they have given up.Trouble is it costs a hundred thousand Baht to fill a rai of land which they surely don't have.

Post by **businessman** » August 31, 2005, 11:12 am

Well here in Nong Khai we had a wild night.Holy ----.The only time that comes even close was October 1987 in London.Winds like i've never seen in Thailand.Trees down everywhere and roofs missing.We're OK.All along the main road is hazardous due to tree limbs blocking the bike lane and so bikers swerving out into the traffic flow.

Post by **BangkokButcher** » August 31, 2005, 1:35 pm

businessman wrote:The only time that comes even close was October 1987 in London.

Now that certainly sets some alarm bells ringing, I'm just sincerely hoping that injuries etc are minimal

Post by **Bandung_Dero** » August 31, 2005, 2:33 pm

BangkokButcher wrote:This looks kinda scary, how is the weather there at the moment??

Can you apply this magic to lotto results? The picture is dated 31st Aug for your post on the 24th

Edit: opps sorry looks like an active site. Bugger, still have to guess my numbers

Post by **BangkokButcher** » August 31, 2005, 2:49 pm

Yep sorry BD, it is a live site

, nice thought though LOL.

The missus just called home to find out how things are there (Tha Bo), and yep, apparently it sure was a hell of a hectic night, but thankfully it only seems like a few roofs were lost in the storm and noone knows of anybody hurt so far.

Post by **polehawk** » August 31, 2005, 7:16 pm

Might have been a tornado (lum hua guaht) in the Nong Khai area the other night, Marcus?

Post by **businessman** » September 1, 2005, 11:16 am

Never seen such weird weather here.It struck all along the river and may have been guided in by the Laos mountains.Did it hit Udon at all?

Here,no one hurt as i think the population density is so low that there is no one who will be hit by a flying roof.Anyway,Thais hide at the first sight of rain so were all tucked up when it hit.