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Discussion 1 : 11/09/2012 at 09:08 AM

No one is responsible for heavy rain, thunderstorms etc. except Mother Nature, but the people in charge the Government is responsible for taking care of such events and since last year everyone knows how serious it is to do so.

Discussion 2 : 11/09/2012 at 02:42 AM

I visited Sukhothai in 2008. I did not even know about the ancient city except for luckily I was at a Thai Festival in Reston Virginia, and the Tourism Association (TAT) had a booth and a brochure about the area. The next year on one of my trips to Thailand I went to the city. Was a very nice bus ride from Northern Bus Terminal (Mo Chit) in Bangkok. Decent, certainly inexpensive lodging in Sukhothai. I was there in early December and the weather was cool at night and really nice during the day. Wonderful day spent walking around.

Discussion 3 : 11/09/2012 at 02:20 AM

I think it's time to put our world's famous Water Flow-Accelerating Devices to the test and save the people of SukhoThai!

Discussion 4 : 11/09/2012 at 12:17 AM

I like the photo where people are just standing around buying snacks .That approach doesnt seem to work very well .Those ten people could easily plant 1000 trees a day .

Discussion 5 : 11/09/2012 at 12:12 AM

Did you ever notice that the water tends to collect where all the concrete is ? Maybe concrete isnt the answer .

Discussion 6 : 10/09/2012 at 11:37 PM

A river runs literally right through the center of Sukotai, and it overflows its banks annually. For example, 2010 was a year of record drought in Thailand. And then look at Sukotai, in 2010: http://www.bangkokpost.com/multimedia/photo/193917/Flood-in-Sukhothai-and-Nan englishbob 7 - "'There will be no floods next year' - Yingluck" I did a google search on that quote, and it turns out you completely made it up. banmebkk 15 - The minister in charge of the dams and responsible for the water levels was directly appointed by AV during the AV administration. Are you saying AV appointed an incompetent official?

Discussion 7 : 10/09/2012 at 11:33 PM

Hands up Who knows where the Yom River is? Follow up question - How far is the Yom River from Bangkok?

Discussion 8 : 10/09/2012 at 11:19 PM

Why doesn't Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop just put some boats in the river and drain the flooded areas?

Discussion 9 : 10/09/2012 at 07:23 PM

@Disc 3 - Was the country flooded on such a grand scale during the TRT? DEM? no no no. This has nothing to do with the DEMs preparation, it has to do with the PTP lack of action to release flood waters from the dams. They waited until the dam was 95% full. They waited for farmers to harvest their third harvest.

Discussion 10 : 10/09/2012 at 07:04 PM

No one could have seen this coming, if only there had been time to prepare. lol.

Discussion 11 : 10/09/2012 at 06:51 PM

No floods in Thailand in 2012 - PM Yingluck

Discussion 12 : 10/09/2012 at 06:31 PM

With the minimal efforts or initiative since last year to mitigate annual flooding anyone who believed PM Yingluck's glib promises of no more flooding must be beyond naive.

Discussion 13 : 10/09/2012 at 05:58 PM

D3 bkposter - It really doesn't matter that Thaksin did nothing in his 6 years or the army did nothing in 07 or the DEMs did nothing in 09, that sort of rhetoric is useless. The ONLY thing that counts is what the PTP are doing right now. They promised last year to make things better, the cabinet authorized huge emergency spending budgets, they pat themselves on the back successful completion of flood prevention projects, yet here we go again ... and this hasn't been an extremely heavy rain year.

Discussion 14 : 10/09/2012 at 05:42 PM

Looks like all those billions of baht the government spent on the flood plan probably went into someone's pocket. What happen to guaranteeing no floods in 2012? Even with the worst floods of 2011, corruption still overrules common sense and billions of flood management dollars disappear while Thailand continues to flood and head into financial ruins

Discussion 15 : 10/09/2012 at 05:40 PM

@D3 bkposter. The Thaksin PPP was in power in 2008. Not the military or the Democrats. The Democrats were only in charge from 2009 to mid 2011. When there were floods upcountry in 2010, the Democrats were heavily criticized. Well, now Pheu Thai is in charge. The buck stops with the party in charge. Especially when they've budgeted 350 billion baht to prevent flooding. Whining about what happened before is childish and doesn't solve the problems. There were reports in the paper just last week about most of the flood relief funds in the northeast being stolen by corrupt politicians. the Northeast isn't Democrat territory. It's time to stop blaming the Democrats and time for Pheu Thai to start doing the job it was elected to do.

Discussion 16 : 10/09/2012 at 05:20 PM

@englishbob D7, you forgot to mention that the flood prevention tests were called off, because of flooding. And the rainy season is still 7 more weeks long (or thereabout). The country is in firm hands, don't worry.

Discussion 17 : 10/09/2012 at 03:11 PM

Disc3 - "There will be no floods next year" - Yingluck If she can't do it, don't promise it. And by the way - the floods last year were the worst in living memory and the handling of it was utterly atrocious. Seriously... the flood control centre flooded! And they didn't know it was going to happen! And the flood supplies were damaged... by the flood! How could it have been worse?

Discussion 18 : 10/09/2012 at 02:34 PM

Here we are with the same song again 'Flood Flood Flood' and there will be more to come. Thousands of people have not yet received their compensation for last year's floods anf they will have to cope with the coming ones..where are last year's flood experts??.

Discussion 19 : 10/09/2012 at 02:25 PM

BP.Would love to

Discussion 20 : 10/09/2012 at 02:25 PM

How many trees were planted in Sukothai this year?

Discussion 21 : 10/09/2012 at 02:20 PM

RE: D2 Dick.. In case you were not aware, The military and the DP were in charge from 06 to last year, and what did they do? 06 Nothing, 07 nothing, 08 nothing, 09 nothing, 10 nothing....11 they lost power and immediately complained that the government was not doing enough to help the flooding. There has been flooding every year for as far back as recorded history, but you seem to have the impression that this is a new phenomenon.

Discussion 22 : 10/09/2012 at 01:21 PM

this regime certainly havent learnt anything whilst in power,its propaganda machine is at full capacity with the puppets patting each other on the back declaring job well done ,whilst the water propelled floating machine are idle and of no use what so ever,the country is in disarray with no initative or direction indeed no leadership,to call in experts is a costly project to do, the budget have already been spent,with a huge deficency about to hit the roof but it also to do with saving face not to bring in foreign experts from holland who had simular problems themselves many years ago

Discussion 23 : 10/09/2012 at 01:02 PM

Sukhothai get flooded every year for as long as I can remember. The scary part is that more rain has yet to come, along with runoffs from the upper regions of Thailand. How much more? How quickly? For how long? Would the Bangkok Post care to enlighten its faithful readers?