PHUKET: Patong Hospital was being sandbagged as floodwaters rose higher and higher on Phuket today, making some intersections and low-points impassable.
A spokesperson at the hospital said that pickups could no longer travel along the roadway outside the facility.
Kusoldharm Foundation workers were sandbagging hospital entranceways. In the worst of previous floods, patients have been evacuated.
Meteorological forecasters were today predicting that storms could continue to douse Phuket and surrounding provinces until Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
The installation of new drains to ease flooding outside the Royal Plaza at the Tesco-Lotus supermarket intersection in Phuket City had been completed, a spokesperson for the Highways Department said today.
''Just one more day of work is required to resurface the road properly,'' said Worrapoj Supakorn. ''But we may not be able to do that now until next Tuesday or Wednesday.''
The Kusoldharm Foundation reported that traffic was still flowing around Patong's one-way loop, but so was the water.
Delays could be expected on routes all over Phuket. Deep water that motorcycles could not traverse was reported outside the TOT offices in Chao Fa Road West and outside HomePro near Chalong Circle, in southern Phuket.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reports that each day it continues to rain increases the dangers of landslips and slides.
A spokesperson at the hospital said that pickups could no longer travel along the roadway outside the facility.
Kusoldharm Foundation workers were sandbagging hospital entranceways. In the worst of previous floods, patients have been evacuated.
Meteorological forecasters were today predicting that storms could continue to douse Phuket and surrounding provinces until Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
The installation of new drains to ease flooding outside the Royal Plaza at the Tesco-Lotus supermarket intersection in Phuket City had been completed, a spokesperson for the Highways Department said today.
''Just one more day of work is required to resurface the road properly,'' said Worrapoj Supakorn. ''But we may not be able to do that now until next Tuesday or Wednesday.''
The Kusoldharm Foundation reported that traffic was still flowing around Patong's one-way loop, but so was the water.
Delays could be expected on routes all over Phuket. Deep water that motorcycles could not traverse was reported outside the TOT offices in Chao Fa Road West and outside HomePro near Chalong Circle, in southern Phuket.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reports that each day it continues to rain increases the dangers of landslips and slides.
even my 10-year-old students can tell me that 'Patong floods every year'. Some of them can even tell me why - too much development.
Posted by another steve on July 5, 2012 16:21