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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 3 July 2006 :-
Widespread alerts for floods, landslides
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Interior Minister Kongsak Wantana said Monday that the predicted floods in the east have eased, saying he ordered an early warning in crisis areas be issued ahead of time to prevent great loss in the face of crisis.
Air Chief Marshal Kongsak said floods in Chantaburi and Trat receded, but are still worrying in Bang Saphan district of Prachuap Khiri Khan southwest of Bangkok where an evacuation has been prepared for, but which has not taken place.
Incessant rain has triggered floods in some provinces while flash flood and landslide warnings have been issued for some other provinces across the country.
Flooding in Prachuap Khiri Khan prompted the Bang Sapan district's kindergarten schools to close Monday while widespread cloudiness and rainshowers caused traffic problems Monday morning.
Ban Saphan Hospital is under water. Hospital staff used boats to transport patients and severe cases will be moved to the provincial hospital.
Floodwaters in the northern province of Phitsanulok is still high in the provincial capital district and surrounding areas due to the continuing rains.
The Meteorological Department has warned of heavy downpours and flash floods in the North, the central region and the upper South.
High waves are expected in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Small boats are advised to remain in port.
Nine provinces--including Tak, Uthai Thani, Chon Buri, Rayong, Chantaburi,Trat, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Ranong--should remain alert for flash floods, according to the Meteorological Department.
The hydromet forecasts heavy rain in the North, the Northeast, the East, the upper reaches of the South and central areas over the next few days.
Persons living in mountainous areas in the North, the East and the upper South should brace for possible landslides and flash floods, said the Department of Mineral Resources.
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Report from The Nation dated Saturday 8 July 2006 :-
Northerners braced for floods, mudslides
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The weather bureau warned northern residents yesterday of flash floods and landslides this weekend.
Residents of Tak, Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, and Chiang Rai have been readied for evacuation.
An Andaman Sea storm has brought heavy rainfall in the North, according to meteorologist Worapong Khunawattanangkul.
In Chiang Rai, disaster-prone Mae Fa Luang, Mae Chan, Mae Suay, Mae Sai and Wiang Pa Pao districts were told to evacuate if rainfall exceeds 100 millimetres.
They were at extreme risk of landslides and flash floods, according to local disaster-prevention chief Suthep Dechchaisri. There had been more than 70 reports of subsiding hill-country land in Tak border areas, including Mae Ramat, Ban Tak, Tha Song Yang and Mae Sot districts. They would be declared disaster zones.
Two houses in Umphang district were swallowed by a three-metre-deep sinkhole, a local official reported.
In central Thailand, six villages along the Prachantakham canal in Prachin Buri were submerged by floodwater from the nearby Khao Yai National Park.
Meanwhile, the body of Mae Hong Son flood victim Manit Panta was found three kilometres from his home. He was swept away on Wednesday.
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Report from The Nation dated Sunday 9 July 2006 :-
Mae Hong Song, Tak residents warned of flash floods
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The Meteorological Department Sunday warned people living in low-lying areas and near waterways to brace themselves for flash floods during the next two days.
The department said heavy rains would be unleashed in the two provinces by the influence of the southwest monsoon wind during the next two days.
The monsoon wind would also cause many parts of the country to see heavy rains, the announcement said.
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Saturday 15 July 2006 :-
Floods, high waves forecast
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Phang Nga Province has declared an emergency after three consecutive days of heavy rains put major portions of several districts under water.
Heavy downpours are forecast to continue throughout Thailand this weekend, but the South faces possible flash floods and mudslides, a disaster service official warned.
Director General Anucha Mokhavet of the Ministry of Interior's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said the southwest monsoons over the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand are quite strong, and could bring heavy rain to as much as 60-to-70& of the country.
People living near waterways in the southern provinces of Phang Nga, Krabi, Satun and Trang, as well as the northern provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak and Uttaradit must prepare for evacuation to high ground, Mr Anucha said. All these provinces are currently vulnerable to flash floods, water runoff and mudslides, today through Sunday.
Fishermen were also warned to be most careful when being offshore or, better still, to remain ashore as the ocean storms in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand may be as high as two to three metres.
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Tuesday 1 August 2006 :-
Chiang Mai town left inundated after deluge
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Chiang Mai - A heavy downpour in the early hours of yesterday left Chiang Mai town under water and paralysed traffic.
Officials said 10 large pumps worked all morning to drain water from heavily inundated areas into the Ping river. Waist-deep water was reported in many areas, including Sri Ping Muang.
More than 50 smaller pumps were employed in other areas such as Chang Khlan and Chotana.
The flooding caused traffic jams throughout the town.
Chiang Mai Mayor Boonlert Buranupajorn said drainage was hampered by the overflowing of the Mae Hia stream, which pushed the flood waters back into the town through an irrigation tunnel.
One of the worst-hit areas was the residential estate in tambon Mae Hia next to a site planned for a three-month international horticultural exposition.
Thanawat Todchai, chairman of tambon Mae Hia administrative organisation, said that the exhibition site's drainage system was still under construction so the flood water flowed out into the adjoining residential area.
He said under the drainage plan the water must be drained into Mae Hia stream.
In Lampang, a flash flood triggered by heavy rain hit three districts - Mae Moh, Hang Chat and Koh Kha.
Chanthip Lasaenlue, 55, was reported to have been swept away by a flood that affected more than 200 houses.
The weather officer has warned of more heavy rain and possible flash floods in the northern provinces of Chiang Rai, Phayao, Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai and Nan.
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Report from The Nation dated Tuesday 1 August 2006 :-
Train services between Chiangmai & Bangkok cancelled
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The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) last night cancelled all train services between Chiang Mai and Bangkok after floods damaged the track in Lampang.
Hundreds of would-be passengers were stranded at Chiang Mai train station as of press time.
Railway police and SRT officials said they could not fix the damaged track because the flooding was ongoing.
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Report from The Bangkok Post dated Wednesday 2 August 2006 :-
Floods hit business districts in Chiangmai
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The Ping river overflowed and inundated several business districts in Chiang Mai yesterday. Thada Sukpunnakan, director of the water management centre in the upper North, said the Ping river had risen 7cm per hour yesterday and water levels at Nawarat bridge had surged to 4.3 metres. But, he said, water volume on the Ping river was less than last year.
Local authorities and residents on Charoenprathet and Chang Khlan roads have piled more than 200,000 sandbags to prevent flooding.
The floods forced eight schools in the city of Chiang Mai to close, including Chairoj Sacred Heart school and Montfort college.
Ban Pa Phrao Nok village in tambon Padaed in Muang district was under water and roads to the village were impassable.
Bangkok-Chiang Mai rail services were disrupted after forest run-off damaged tracks in Lampang province. Passengers travelling between Bangkok-Chiang Mai needed to take buses to or from Lampang station to complete the journey.
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Report from The Nation dated Wednesday 2 August 2006 :-
Unprecedented floods devastate Chiang Mai
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Roads, rail lines cut, leaving tourism in tatters and many businesses in despair for the second year in a row
Chiang Mai is reeling under unprecedented flooding with businesses suffering huge losses, the tourism industry in tatters, schools being closed and train services being suspended.
Since floods hit the northern capital early on Monday, hotels and tour companies have received massive cancellations from tourists concerned about their safety and disruptions to their tour programmes.
Kunchit Changsuwan, chairman of the tourism business federation, said riverside hotels had been badly hurt while many shops were now closed for fear of a repeat of last year's devastating flooding.
He said tourists could only get to Chiang Mai by plane and certain buses as some roads and the train service have been cut.
Chiang Mai Governor Suwat Tantipat said the floodwaters should drop by tomorrow as a result of drainage efforts by the local authorities. He said flood water had not inundated financial districts in urban areas like Chang Khlan Road and the Nite Bazaar shopping complex.
The affected areas are mostly residential located in outer districts.
The governor said drainage efforts needed to be stepped up as weather authorities had reported Storm Phra Phirun was expected to reach Thailand by Friday.
Last night, the State Railway Authority had cancelled all trains between Chiang Mai and Bangkok because flooding had damaged a portion of track in Lampang. A senior railway official said it would take about three days before services resume.
Sangworn Santisuk, president of the Thai Hotels Association's northern region, said of the 10,000 hotel rooms in the city, about 400 are near the river.
"Right now we are enjoying an occupancy rate of 50 per cent, but that could drop. We will have to closely monitor the situation," he said.
On Monday, tourists were stranded at their hotels in Chiang Mai township because of the inundation.
At the Chiang Mai Night Bazaar, business operators filled sandbags as a barrier to block the floods.
Last year, big floods ravaged the city's commercial and tourist zone, causing damage worth hundreds of millions of baht.
Yesterday's floods came after the Ping River overflowed due to heavy downpours and run-off water from upstream. Despite last year's devastating floods and a government promise to prevent future inundations, Chiang Mai residents have been again left to fight floods with just sandbags and pumps.
Even residents living a fair distance from the Ping River suffered, as many roads such as Huay Kaew, Khuang Singh intersection and several small lanes were under water due to poor drainage.
The flooding also threatened many historical sites.
Officials at the Hydrology and Water Management Centre for the Upper Northern Region said the situation in Chiang Mai could return to normal if there were no more downpours.
The northern weather bureau expects only scattered rain in Chiang Mai over the next two days. However, it warned that cloudbursts would spread over the upper North on Friday and Saturday.
Residents living by the Ping and other rivers in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Phetchabun were warned to watch out for possible overflows this weekend.
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Report from The Nation dated Thursday 3 August 2006 :-
Tropical storm set to bring more bad weather to Northern Thailand
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Severe tropical storm "Pra Pirun" is forecast to worsen the flood situation in the North and cause heavy rain and flash-floods in the Northeast and East of Thailand.
Pra Pirun was yesterday centred in the South China Sea about 550 kilometres southeast of Hainan island. Maximum wind velocity recorded near its centre was about 110kph.
It was moving northwest at about 15kph and would affect Thailand's weather.
The storm has already caused heavy rain in northern provinces including Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang and Mae Hong Son.
Kriengsak Khet-in, an official of the Northeast region meteorological centre, said people in lowland areas of Nong Khai, Nakhon Phanom, Ubon Ratchathani, Mukdahan and adjacent provinces should beware of flash-floods in the next few days.
"The tropical storm will increase in power and reach land on Sunday. It will bring heavy rain to 80 per cent of the Northeast," Kriengsak said.
Meanwhile, the unprecedented flooding in Chiang Mai and several northern provinces on Monday has left businesses suffering huge losses, the tourism industry in tatters, schools closed and train services suspended.
Rain still fell on the northern capital yesterday, but the flood water was receding as local officials used 20 pumping machines to drain the water.
Heavy rain in Chiang Rai province on Tuesday night caused water to overflow from two reservoirs and submerge 300 houses and about 1,000 rai of farmland in Pan district.
"The flood situation will worsen if there is more rain. Residents in areas near the reservoirs have been evacuated," said a Pan district official.
Samart Choknapitak, the director-general of the Royal Irrigation Department, said the severe floods in northern provinces were caused by the huge quantity of rainwater, not by the construction sites at Chiang Mai's Night Safari or the Royal Flora Ratchaphruek expo allegedly blocking watercourses.
The department had already built a one-million-cubic-metre reservoir in the Night Safari and a two-million-cubic-metre reservoir at the construction site of the Royal Flora expo to prevent flooding, Samart said.
As a long-term measure to prevent flooding in Chiang Mai, the department planned to build another two reservoirs, which could contain about 100 million cubic metres of water, at a cost of Bt14 billion, he said.
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Report from The Nation dated Monday 28 August 2006 :-
Floods forecast for many regions
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The Meteorological Department yesterday forecast heavy downpours in all regions of the country and warned residents of Mae Hong Son, Tak, Chiang Rai, Nan, Uttaradit, Sukhothai and Phetchabun in particular to be on alert.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation warned seven southern provinces to be prepared for possible floods, storms and landslides.
"Relevant authorities must closely monitor 267 risky spots and watch out for landslides," said Suwit Kaneekul, head of the department's office in Songkhla, one of the provinces for which the warning was issued, along with Phatthalung, Trang, Satun, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.
Suwit's warning came as a landslide in the southern province of Surat Thani briefly blocked traffic in Phanom district.
In the North meanwhile, flash floods yesterday ravaged four districts in Phitsanulok province - Noen Maprang, Wang Thong, Nakhon Thai and Chat Trakan.
Sirens were sounded across Noen Maprang district at around 2am yesterday.
"The sirens helped. There are no reports of casualties," Noen Maprang district chief Praphan Phu-ngarm said.
Pornsak Toothong, a janitor at Ban Pluak Ngarm School in Noen Maprang district, said torrents of water burst through the school's new wall and flooded the school to a depth of more than a metre.
The floods also damaged farmland and houses in the province.
In Chiang Rai province, more than 20 houses were submerged by floods in Mae Chan district. The provincial authority has asked its residents to brace for possible flash floods and mudslides.
In Uttaradit province, officials were closely monitoring the situation as heavy rain rapidly raised the water level in several local canals. Some villages in Tambon Pailom in Lap Lae district have already been flooded and residents of at-risk areas have been told to pack their belongings for possible evacuation.
In eastern Si Sa Ket province, about 15 homes in Wang Hin district have been affected by floods at least 50 centimetres deep for four days already. In the worst-hit spot, the floodwater level was one metre.
Heavy flooding in Nan last week caused more than Bt50 million worth of damage to schools in the northern province, according to a senior education official. At least 29 schools were forced to close down. All schools will resume classes today and students will be exempted from having to wear uniforms because some had lost theirs in the floods.
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