Thailand – Sinking Fortune

Via: Bangkok Post

‘A boy trying to keep his money dry, and a wounded nation: A fourth Ayutthaya industrial estate falls to the floods – and 60,000 workers and their 90 factories face a rough, uncertain future.’

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/261543/fourth-ayutthaya-estate-falls

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Thailand – Nearly one million hit by floods in the south

via: The Nation:

The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department yesterday said that since March 23, the inundation had affected 998,867 people in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Surat Thani, Trang, Chumphon, Songkhla, Krabi and Phang Nga.

Nakhon Si Thammarat:

Nakhon Si Thammarat Governor Thira Mintarasak yesterday said 42 flood victims including one pregnant woman were already airlifted from a risky zone in Noppitham district.

“Floods have marooned their hometowns,” he said.

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Surat Thani:

Floodwater was up to four metres deep in some areas of the Phunphin district yesterday.

Locals could do nothing but climb up to the roofs of their houses to avoid being submerged or swept away.

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Chumphon:

“Rocks and big land masses already flattened a house and a road here,” Moo 8 deputy village chief Nipat Khamkerd said, “Hundreds of rai of farmland have also been ravaged”.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/04/02/national/Nearly-one-million-hit-by-disasters-30152331.html

 

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I think three-time Pulitizer Prize winner Tom Friedman (NYT) explains it best why Thailand might be experiencing SEVERE FLOODING in the ‘DRY SEASON’:

 

‘Global Weirding is Here’ – (February 17, 2010)

“Avoid the term “global warming.” I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html