-- Today, 11 nov.,
Remembrance Day, my YM. & I went-IN to the
7/11. SUPER STORE at the tee junc. Si Lom:Convent rds.;
- Checking the freezers' shelves I saw quite a few bottles & containers of '
Namthip.', of '
Singha.' & of someother water-co.; plenty of
Colas, Sprite etc. etc. available;
-- Standing outside was a queue of maybe upto
one hundred & mainly young people.
A couple of enquiries - I didn't believe the first reply - revealed that they were awaiting clothing to replace that ruined by the dirty flood-waters - I didn't know that 7/11. stores sold clothing, but possibly that s'store. was acting as a distrib'n. point for charitably donated clothes?
-- In SILOM COMPLEX SHOPPING PLAZA's TOP'S S'mkt. I saw only
Evian &
Vittel bottled water.
-- Later on, Si Lom rd., I passed-by a shop whose windows are covered by olde 'papers. - nigh on next door to the now hoarded-up corner shop - tee junc. Si lom:soi 4. - that used to sell cooked ducks - outside of wch. was a pick-up truck laden with bottled water: a '
Cooly Fresh.'
12-pack & plastic-wrapped product; I estimated that there were some
4,300. bottles aboard, all of wch. were being passed along an human chain and into the shop.
-- A recent posting in >
http://www.baht-stop.com < and entitled:
'A picture is worth a thousand words.' shews a graphic from the
BKK. Post. 'paper. of the depth of water in various & BKK. loc'ns. using an human body as a scale:
ie.: in such-and-such a place the water is shewn as knee-deep, whereas in another area it's chest-deep. At the RIGHT hand end is a lady in white, laden with shopping and standing above the water-level, above '
R'prasong. I'sect.' - this might be to reassure
farang shoppers? Only surprised that the lady in white didn't have the features of a certain & well-known
politicienne!
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