The flood in Thailand 2011

Many of my friends and relatives beg me to be informed about our well-being and experience during the fatal flood happen right now in November 2011. Due the circumstances happen in our house I can't answer to every mail and call we get every day by telephone, Skype or eMail.
Please have patience I try to post some photos every day I capture out in front of our house and at the main road called Phaholyotin.
8th of Nov. 2011, the flood is getting worse and the water level rises to more than half a meter in our side way. Internet works just sporadic. Although I'm trying every day to keep online with my Mac from the upper floor.

13th of November 2011, the water level gets lower very very slowly and the top of the disaster seems to be passed.
But it isn't a guarantee for to be save, a hugh mass of water coming from the north still must pass Bangkok and its outlying districts to flow in the ocean. If officers will decide to open more water gates and to move the big sand bags, a nowe flood could infect us again.

18th of November 2011, the water is completely drained, our house, the garden and the side way outside was getting dry again. At our house around remains a stinking disgusting chaos which needs a lot of work to clean up.
But the flood now runs to other districts around northern Bangkok and its not sure that it runs in our area again. Several watergates and huge sand bag walls will get to open or removed to drain more water running from the north to the south into the Gulf of Siam.

24th of Nov. 2011, the situation turns to normal, our Soi and the main road outside getting dry again. More description on the photos I posted. I hereby close this report and hope that the next flood will not come too soon again. Bangkok isn't save of flood disasters. But most is caused by Thai authorities who set the priorities in other profitable financial interests instead to invest more in building necessary drain channels, stopping building commercial parks and huge housing estates who need to pump out too much of the needed groundwater.
Bangkok is sinking too fast - some areas 2 cm a year, some 5 cm people say!

(I stay with my wife and my family in Bangkok, since 1978. We moved to our own house to the district Sena Nikhom, Bangkhen in 1991 and remain staying at the same place for more than 30 years.)

Many of my friends and relatives beg me to be informed about our well-being and experience during the fatal flood happen right now in November 2011. Due the circumstances happen in our house I can't answer to every mail and call we get every day by telephone, Skype or eMail.
Please have patience I try to post some photos every day I capture out in front of our house and at the main road called Pha…  (read more)