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Flooding

Posted by Stuart at 07:17 PM on October 07, 2002

The long-awaited floods finally came to Bangkok today, but so far they haven't been as bad as I expected. I left the apartment building today to find that Silom and the other roads around my building (Surasak and Soi 19) were full of water up to the curb.

I carefully made my way to the Surasak SkyTrain station armed with my camera, but from the elevated tracks I could see that the flooding was mostly confined to the area around my building. By afternoon it had stopped raining and most of the water had drained away. This time we were spared.

To see a few pictures of the traffic on the flooded streets, check out the Pictures of Bangkok Photo Album