Good work staying on top of the news Phuketwan!

Posted by ssresident on August 25, 2011 10:04

Karon - raining but no floods that I can see. I drove to work from Kathu to Karon via Chalong with no problems a couple of hours ago. I hate to suggest it but lines such as "disrupting life on the island in ways that have not been experienced since the 2004 tsnunami" do seem a little over the top.

Posted by Jamie on August 25, 2011 10:23

Only what I can see from my windows and balconies --- water everywhere, as high as the top of parked motorbike tires on Soi Sunset. The water running down San Sabai is very brown so coming down from the hills. Little vehicular traffic and walkers picking their ways very slowly as you can not see the holes and speed bumps for the murk. The tuk tuk drivers are letting the gondoliers take people from Banzaan to Bangla --- a first.

Posted by ssresident on August 25, 2011 11:01

I concur with the editor, we were in Koh Samui during their dreadful floods in April. It was horrible for the local people and shop owners it was devastating. Most shop owners in Chaweng were effected and lost most if not all of their stock let alone the loss of business. Entire villages were washed away and people were killed. It's easy to say your life isn't disrupted when you're high and dry and people in the low lying areas are effected. Perhaps it would be worth Jamie pitching in and helping the people who are flooded to clear their property rather than saying he isn't affected.

Posted by Lynn on August 25, 2011 14:31

Left Bangkok at 08:05 this morning on a Bangkok Airways flight and arrived a little after 10am approx. Spent approx. one hour circling Surat Thani. Lots of flooding on the airport turn off road from Thepkasattri due to the current road work underway there, but main highways this morning were not too bad. A few houses along the main highways located below road level were knee deep in water. Sad to see.

Posted by Duncan on August 25, 2011 16:15

Yes,
I was caught in some flash fooods in the back of patong...

Very scary... I was running through the water waist deep... and you couldn't see where the road ended and when the creeks started... almost made the deathly mistake of running straight into a creek.

Lucky... (somebody out there is protecting me)

Posted by Tom on August 25, 2011 18:29

SORRY but I have to agree with Jamie - I live in Chalong where I rebuilt a shop house for my business, my family lives on top floor - Chalong Circle was flooded about 1 ft deep for a few hours, traffic was moving slowly into to Phuket Town but fine coming into Chalong on BOTH Chao Faa Roads ... no flooding near the pier or anywhere really and what there was subsided in a few hours ... other parts of the island were obviously flooded like Patong, but since such vast amounts of trees have been cut down and replaced with concrete people have been saying it's only a matter of time ... edit delete comment as you wish Ed ... but that's what we saw with our own eyes today and I had to drive around Chalong Rawai and Kata a few times ...

Posted by Mike on August 26, 2011 00:48

The creek behind the property was about 2 meters higher than normal, and a real danger to the neighbor kids frolicking about near freshly de tree banks-luckily, it is a very deep channel though it was reaching the level of my land in the lower area. the animals were moved away from this. A friend up stream about a kilometer had thigh high water in his house on Thursday about noon. This is in north Manik , west Srisoontorn area near the Remand Centre.
I realize that humongous reservoir behind Manic School is above me and am not liking it.

Posted by Horse Doctor on August 26, 2011 20:57