Extensive flooding in Phuket

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Extensive flooding in Phuket

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Extensive flooding in Phuket

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judging by the pics i've seen looks really bad>
Phuket Old Town suffered the worst flooding in fifty years this past weekend, say local residents
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https://thephuketexpress.com/2022/10/17 ... residents/

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yong wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:56 pm Extensive flooding in Phuket

Wow, that's bad.

"Cars and motorcycles disappearing"
Hmm, nice bit of hyperbole there from someone not even there. But still, bad.
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Yep. No submerged vehicles, unless a moto fell over.
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The reason there is so much problem with flooding in phuket is all the rice fields, marshes, where before the water buffalos roamed, have all been filled in and the water has nowhere to go.
In phuket town there are canals leading to the sea, when it rains heavily and incoming tide, the canals fill up and....

Friends in Kamala are experiencing the worst floods in 30+ years and many land slides onto the roads
sat/sunday the electricity was out for over 22 hours cause of downed electric poles

Its worse up north where they are having to open the dams flooding the nearby rice fields, they say the Chao Phraya River might overrun its banks heading into Bangkok very soon

This is sept 8th this year an they expect it to be worse this week


And still their climate change deniers out there
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road between Kathu and Patong is closed now

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and still raining and more to come
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