It is highly unlikely that Silom/Suriwong will see any significent flooding(in my opinion) as this is the prime business area that is vital to keep clear. Whether there will be a little surface water around is anyones guess, as there are conflicting reports from all parties. My own opinion is that drinking water and some foodstuffs (in 7/11's etc) will be hard to find, as the factories making the plastic bottles are under water. The worst flooding is alledgedly tonight (Fri).

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There is a lot more to come before all the water from the North has gone into the sea, there are predictions this morning that it will take a further 4 to 6 weeks and the comment from gregvc above about king tides also connects. Take a look at thaivisa.com/forum and go the the Thailand News threads. Earlier there were lots of predictions that most of Bkk would be safe, this has proven very very wrong and I suggest it's a little dangerous to assume that Silom etc., will be OK. Silom is only about 2.0 - 2.5 kilometres from San Saeb canal which connects directly to the Chao Phya river which is bursting it's banks. My guess is that Silom, Suriwongse and that area are in fact a little lower than San Saeb canal. Whether the 'workers' in this area can get to work or have gone home to help families in the provinces is also an open question. I have a work colleague who owns a condo about 4 kilometres from swampy airport, late yesterday afternoon (Fri 21 Oct) the police ordered everybody in her condo and all the people within about 30 kilometre radius to evacuate their homes etc. Swampy sits within a protecting wall, the water is already at the standard wall height and is now only contained by sandbags / temporary earth banks, etc. Many supermarkets / minimarts are progressively being cleaned out, all over the parts of Thailand incl Bkk affected by the floods. There is obviously no resupply whatever and it will take days to start resupply once factories etc., are able to resume production and gain supplies of raw materials.

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-- On today's BBC.R3. news' b'cast.,(2213.oo.hrs., BKK.-time.), we heard that the Thai gov't. reckons that it might take upto six weeks for all of the flood-waters to have receded from BKK.:
- Apparently there are some 16 different & competing gov't.-agencies all with their fingers in the pie, anxious for MORE funds and to make themselves heard to justify their existence; sounds rather like the olde & Army-saying: 'Order, Counter-order & Disorder.', doesn't it?

-- Gentle Reader, The flg. web-site might be of some & possible interest to you -
> http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/loca...ge-yet-to-come <
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All the government agencies don't have a thing on mother nature.

The floods will go away when the water has finished draining into the Gulf, and that's pretty much that.

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-- PLUS, strange but true, Mother Nature cannot be bribed! --

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-- Acording to the Yahoo! news'-bar the latest news - as read by me at approx. 2513.30.hrs.GMT. - are:
1.- Flood-waters have breached DON MUEANG AIRPORT'S defences; all flights both IN & OUT have been CANCELLED. DM's. snr. exec. will review & will re-assess the sit'n. on or about 01 nov.;
2.- The Thai Gov't. has declared that the period 27-31 oct. will be a Public Holiday: 'Sanook!'.
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AND that DM is 'Flood Control Headquarters'... OMG

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Bangkok to the Edge of the Flooding - 25 October 2011

Bangkok to the Edge of the Flooding - 25 October 2011 - YouTube

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-- According to a message from the Irrig'n. Dept.: 'BKK. could be dry in eleven days. ... .';
- Source: > The Baht Stop < quoting > Bangkok Post : Capital could be dry in 11 days <

-- NB.: For The Baht Stop no need either to register or to log-IN for reading only.
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-- 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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