Thai floods death toll hits 41

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In this Oct. 22, 2010 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Thai woman and her daughter walk in water in Ayutthaya, Thailand. In Thailand's capital, officials were on guard for flooding as raging waters from annual monsoon rains were due to sweep down the Chao Phraya river into Bangkok.​

 

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A general view shows sand bags laid down to reinforce flood walls on the Chao Phraya river are seen in Bangkok on october 24, 2010. Bangkok braced for rising waters encroaching on the fortified city as the death toll from two weeks of nationwide flooding rose to 38, emergency officials said.​

 

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A man walks on sand bags laid down to reinforce flood walls on the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok on october 24, 2010.​

 

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A Buddhist monk wades through a flooded small business area near the Chao Phraya river Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. High tide combined with increasing water level after large volume of water from the country's northern part flew in to the Chao Phraya river have made the area near the river in the Thai capital temporarily inundated.​

 

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A Buddhist monk wades through floodwaters at a Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya province on October 25, 2010 as the country struggles following two weeks of flooding. (PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images)​

 

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Residents watch television at their flooded house in Bangkok October 25, 2010. Floodwaters from northeast provinces, which have swamped thousands of acres of farmland, have spread to the Thai capital. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)​

 

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A Thai teenager wades through a flooded alleyway near the Chao Phraya River, in Bangkok.​

 

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Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (L) gestures to flood victims in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, October 25, 2010.​

 

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Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (L) wades through floodwaters as he visits Nonthaburi province, located on the outskirts of Bangkok, October 25, 2010.

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (R) visits a flooded area in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, October 25, 2010.​

 

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A Thai worker holds a Buddhist statue in his flooded shop near the Chao Phraya River, in Bangkok on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. High tides combined with increasing flood water runoff from the country's northern part landing in to the Chao Phraya River have made the area near the river in the Thai capital temporarily inundated.​

 

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A Thai woman cooks in her flooded home in Bangkok on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010.​

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

jesus christ it's flooded? Is patpong, pattaya and phuket flooded?

 

[Cestbon]

jesus christ it's flooded? Is patpong, pattaya and phuket flooded?

Phuket is island cannot be flood. But Sinkie island flood regularly is due to bad management.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Phuket is island cannot be flood. But Sinkie island flood regularly is due to bad management.

oic then all is well for us sinkees then.I mean what could sinkees be caring about a place like lopburi? Which foreigner goes there unless it's some wannabe monk.

 

[Ramseth]

Phuket is island cannot be flood. But Sinkie island flood regularly is due to bad management.

Islands can't be flooded is a macro-geographic view. In micro-geography, certain areas within an island can be flooded too. However, left to nature, these areas would then evolve into rivers and flush off the waters to the seas. In urban development and flood control, Singapore didn't really do well not only now but for many years already. The drainages and canals are simply inefficient at coping even given the natural island flood flushing landscape. Worse now, they built a reservoir at the flushgate against all commonsense geography or academic geography.

 

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An aerial view of a temple surrounded by flood waters in Bangkok October 26, 2010. Floodwaters from northeast provinces, which have swamped thousands of acres of farmland, have spread to the Thai capital.​

 

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An aerial view of floodwaters in Bangkok October 26, 2010. Floodwaters from northeast provinces, which have swamped thousands of acres of farmland, have spread to the Thai capital.​

 

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A woman cooks food as her restaurant is inundated with floodwaters after heavy rains in the Thai capital Bangkok on October 26, 2010. The worst floods to hit parts of Thailand in decades have left at least 56 people dead, but Bangkok has so far avoided heavy deluges, officials said.​

 

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A man tries to make his way through flooded streets in Bangkok on October 26, 2010.​

 

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Thai workers open their shop near the Chao Phraya river, in a flood in Bangkok Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. High tides combined with increasing flood water runoff from the country's northern part landing in to the Chao Phraya River have made the area near the river in the Thai capital temporarily inundated.​