A few of you have asked about the flooding in Bangkok. Thailand’s method of dealing with water is simply to push it off on someone else. The rain water in the city is pumped out to the rural areas. And the farmers are not happy about this because too much water is not good for their crops. (It is possible for rice to have too much water; who knew!) Farmers are so upset they tried to tear down a dyke so the city would flood and save their land. And now the idea of lets just push our water problems on to someone else is affecting our “neighborhood”. Water is being pumped onto our soi (pronounicated ‘soy’ meaning side street) and I guess the guy who owns the street (yes individuals own streets) has not figured out who to pump our water too. So on Friday the water was standing in the street. School was let out early and sand bags were placed around the school.
Saturday we visited Michelle and her peeps and saw the river near their place. You can just make out the houses across the river that is nearly flooded. When we came home that night it took us 30 minutes to travel 10 minute distance due to water in the road. Not just on our soi, but on the main road. The taxi driver could/ would not go down our soi, so we got to wade thru the water to get to the house. Sunday was more of the same; school was cancelled for Monday and on Monday the water has dried up. Not completely, but not nearly what it once was. So we’ll have to see how the rest of the month goes. November 1st marks the end of the rainy season. So if we can make it thru the month we will be fine. Well we will have survived the flood and now get to survive the heat!!
