Thailand Flood

Since a few Month Thailand has to fight with the worst Flood for at least 69 Years. The Water coming down from North flooded many Provinces and important Industrial Estates. Right now the Flood arrived in Bangkok City and it is possible that whole Bangkok will get flooded. Why can this be happen?

The different Organisations  just do not communicate and not work together to prevent a bigger disaster. The Media provides us with different Information about the Water Masses everyday, Quantities of the water arriving from North are sometimes 2000 – 3000 million  and sometimes up to 20,000 million cubic litres, which of course confuses everybody.

It seems to be a hidden fight between Government and Opposition and the Battlefield are the backs of the Thai People which are loosing their Homes to the immense Water Masses.

Food and drinking Water is getting expensive, hundred of thousands people had to be evacuated and many others still will be evacuated. Prices for boats and flood prevention material are on the rise. Sandbags are nearly unavailable! Many People do not get any Help through the not well organised Organisations.

More and more Districts from Bangkok have to be evacuated and there is still no End to see. Looking at Google’s Flood Map shows that there is no much chance for Bangkok that the flood will bypass the City.

I only hope that if this Flood is over, some Organisations will start to do anything possible to prevent such Floods in the future. It looks like in the past it was easier to ask for new Donations every year.

Some important Phone Numbers are:

• The Prime Minister’s Office: 1111 press 5
• DPM Hot Line (Department of Disaster Preventation and Mitigation): 1784
• Emergency Medical and Referral Patient Services to hospital: 1669
• Flood victims in Bangkok and around province: 02-281-5443
• Department of Highways: 1586

Detailed Information about the Flood can be found on many Websites, here only a few of them:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/

http://www.bangkokpost.com/

http://www.thaiflood.com/

http://www.thaivisa.com/

http://globalfloodmap.org/Thailand

Red Shirts plan Chaos in Bangkok

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I was reading through the News about Red Shirt Demonstration over the coming few days. They plan to paralyze Bangkok and topple the Government. Maybe this will result in a total opposite reaction of the still neutral 63 – 64 million Thai People.

I remember that last Year Pedestrians and Motorcycle Drivers  just stopped and told the red shirts to leave. This could be happen again. Most of the Thai People want to live in Peace and are not interested in this Demonstrations.

I only hope whatever is happen that there will be no violence.

Read the Article here for more details.

Also interesting what the PAD (the so-called Yellow Shirts) saying in their Statement: “Thaksin and red shirts aiming for insurrection” and “The upcoming mass rally, mobilised by Thaksin, the red-shirt leaders and the Pheu Thai Party, is a direct violation of Article 68 of the Constitution because the protests are designed to grab power via non-constitutional means.” The PAD seems not to remember what they did over a year ago, or was, for whatever reason, their Demonstrations and the Blockade of the International Airport Suvarnabhumi was rightful?

Some Red Shirts will gather together only 2 KM from my Home and so I will stay at Home on Friday and turn on the TV to be updated.

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