BKK Flood Update 1.2

Inner Bangkok is still bone dry at present, despite some spectacular thunderstorm and heavy rainfall last night.

While the city was pretty quiet yesterday, there was significantly more people on the streets today. As a matter of fact, people were out and about shopping their hearts out today as the malls became rather "inundated" with people.

Central Chidlom was pretty crowded with people everywhere. So crowded it was that I ended up spending more than an hour and a half (involuntary!) in a store just so that I could get some help, make my purchase and then claim for frickin' VAT. Who shops for more than an hour in just a section of a store? Grrr....

Anyway. That was just a case in point how weird things have been in Bangkok city center under the scheme of things at present.

And sending off my parents-in-law to the airport last night, I am very appalled to see a lot of cars parked on the expressways. Yes. you read that right. Quite a number of selfish and inconsiderate idiots decided that it is best to protect their own property by taking up to 3 lanes and hindering traffic on.the.expressways. just because the best thing to do is make sure that "you need to move your valuable belongings to the higher ground!" If that is not plain selfish and inconsiderate, I don't know what is; and really, I felt so compelled to puncture each and every tyres of those vehicles or run a Humvee over them!

Going to the airport yesterday also made us realised that it was good that they actually moved their International Airport from Don Muang to Suvarnabhum. Don Muang is currently looking like this, and is no longer accessible:

While things seem okay here, the situation outside inner Bangkok is really quite bad. What makes it worse is that with some areas being inundated for a few months already now, the fear of diseases is becoming very real. Not to mention, snakes and escaped crocodiles are now lingering beneath those murky water...

As it is, we already know of a few people who have left and possibly lost their homes, and the worst thing is not knowing when they can actually go back.

We can, all jointly hope that the water levels will recede soon for people to start rebuilding their lives.