PHUKET: Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha has ordered preparations for possible flash floods and landslides with heavy rain forecast for many parts of Thailand over the next five days.
Savage storms ripped down a sign at Phuket's Karon Police Station and lifted roofing yesterday.
Elsewhere on the waterlogged holiday island, strong winds downed trees in Srisoonthorn and Rawai.
All mayors have been put on notice by Phuket Governor Nisit Jansomwong to be ready around the clock to deal with emergency flooding and possible landslips.
The dangers of earth sliding increase the more sodden the soil becomes.
In Krabi, all small local vessels have been ordered to stay ashore.
This means the only way that passengers can get to and from Phi Phi and other islands is on board large ferries - and the journeys are unlikely to be pleasant.
With all 300 of Krabi's longtail boats ordered to stay close to shore, tourists may find themselves stranded in resorts that are only accessible by sea.
Boats were able to make some connections in brief good weather this morning but the ban on small speedboats and longtails will be applied again from 2pm when another storm is expected to sweep in.
Savage storms ripped down a sign at Phuket's Karon Police Station and lifted roofing yesterday.
Elsewhere on the waterlogged holiday island, strong winds downed trees in Srisoonthorn and Rawai.
All mayors have been put on notice by Phuket Governor Nisit Jansomwong to be ready around the clock to deal with emergency flooding and possible landslips.
The dangers of earth sliding increase the more sodden the soil becomes.
In Krabi, all small local vessels have been ordered to stay ashore.
This means the only way that passengers can get to and from Phi Phi and other islands is on board large ferries - and the journeys are unlikely to be pleasant.
With all 300 of Krabi's longtail boats ordered to stay close to shore, tourists may find themselves stranded in resorts that are only accessible by sea.
Boats were able to make some connections in brief good weather this morning but the ban on small speedboats and longtails will be applied again from 2pm when another storm is expected to sweep in.
I was chasing shopping carts together with a Thai guy on the parking lot at the big Tesco in Chalong yesterday.
Several carts hit and dented parked cars as they had been left uncollected by the staff. Strong winds blew them all over the parking lot at considerable speed.
I mentioned this to the Tesco customer service counter staff but by the time I came back out 30min later, nothing had been done to collect the carts.
Posted by Herbert on June 18, 2015 11:11