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Cars Under Water, Snakes On Street: Relentless Weekend Rain Drowns Bangkok
The Bangkok Flood Control Centre said the weekend flooding hit 329,000 households, or about 700,000 people. The figures were shared by Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej.
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Bangkok Under Waist-Deep Water As Thailand Gets Month's Worth Of Rain In Days
Entire neighbourhoods were waterlogged in Bangkok after 320 mm (12.6 inches) of rain fell during two or three days last week, or nearly as much as the sprawling low-lying city usually gets in all of September.
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'Sleeping On Table For 2 Days': Over 52,000 Houses Flooded In Bangkok, Thousands Moved To Shelters
Thailand is used to wet weather and September is the peak of the rainy season, but several Bangkok residents said this year seemed worse.
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"Every Canal Is Filled": Bangkok Declares Flood Disaster Amid Heavy Rainfall
The rain has fallen almost continually since Thursday afternoon, flooding roads and swelling Bangkok's canals, sending water into many homes and restaurants.
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Thailand flooding damages its ancient capital
Water fowl, monitor lizards and stray dogs have replaced the throngs of tourists at one of Thailand's greatest historical sites. Record flooding has turned Ayutthaya's ancient temples into islands, and a giant statue of the reclining Buddha appears to float miraculously on the lapping water.
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Despite floods, Thailand celebrates moon festival
Every year when the moon is full and the rainy season draws to an end, Thailand's waterways fill with millions of floating lotus-shaped lanterns - a symbolic, centuries-old gesture once meant to placate the country's goddess of water.
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Bangkok flood defenses hold off peak coastal tides
Defenses shielding the center of Thailand's capital from the nation's worst floods in nearly 60 years mostly held at critical peak tides on Saturday, as the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people. But the threat to central Bangkok was not over, the prime minister said, and the city's northern districts remained submerged along with ...
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Bangkok flood defenses put to test amid high tides
Floods engulfing parts of Bangkok should start to recede in the first week of November, the prime minister said on Saturday after barriers along the swollen main river prevented a disastrous overflow.
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Government warns, thousands evacuate flood-surrounded Bangkok
Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane and train on Thursday, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a weekend deluge rushes through.
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Flood shuts down Bangkok's second largest airport
Floodwaters inched closer to a terminal at the Thai capital's second largest airport Wednesday, leading many who had sought refuge at a shelter there to flee amid warnings that parts of Bangkok could be inundated by up to 5 feet (1.5 metres) of water.
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Thailand floods: Bangkok in 'crisis mode', second airport shuts down
Bangkok's second airport shut down today as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in "crisis mode" to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge.
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Cars Under Water, Snakes On Street: Relentless Weekend Rain Drowns Bangkok
The Bangkok Flood Control Centre said the weekend flooding hit 329,000 households, or about 700,000 people. The figures were shared by Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej.
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Bangkok Under Waist-Deep Water As Thailand Gets Month's Worth Of Rain In Days
Entire neighbourhoods were waterlogged in Bangkok after 320 mm (12.6 inches) of rain fell during two or three days last week, or nearly as much as the sprawling low-lying city usually gets in all of September.
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'Sleeping On Table For 2 Days': Over 52,000 Houses Flooded In Bangkok, Thousands Moved To Shelters
Thailand is used to wet weather and September is the peak of the rainy season, but several Bangkok residents said this year seemed worse.
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"Every Canal Is Filled": Bangkok Declares Flood Disaster Amid Heavy Rainfall
The rain has fallen almost continually since Thursday afternoon, flooding roads and swelling Bangkok's canals, sending water into many homes and restaurants.
-
Thailand flooding damages its ancient capital
Water fowl, monitor lizards and stray dogs have replaced the throngs of tourists at one of Thailand's greatest historical sites. Record flooding has turned Ayutthaya's ancient temples into islands, and a giant statue of the reclining Buddha appears to float miraculously on the lapping water.
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Despite floods, Thailand celebrates moon festival
Every year when the moon is full and the rainy season draws to an end, Thailand's waterways fill with millions of floating lotus-shaped lanterns - a symbolic, centuries-old gesture once meant to placate the country's goddess of water.
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Bangkok flood defenses hold off peak coastal tides
Defenses shielding the center of Thailand's capital from the nation's worst floods in nearly 60 years mostly held at critical peak tides on Saturday, as the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people. But the threat to central Bangkok was not over, the prime minister said, and the city's northern districts remained submerged along with ...
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Bangkok flood defenses put to test amid high tides
Floods engulfing parts of Bangkok should start to recede in the first week of November, the prime minister said on Saturday after barriers along the swollen main river prevented a disastrous overflow.
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Government warns, thousands evacuate flood-surrounded Bangkok
Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane and train on Thursday, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a weekend deluge rushes through.
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Flood shuts down Bangkok's second largest airport
Floodwaters inched closer to a terminal at the Thai capital's second largest airport Wednesday, leading many who had sought refuge at a shelter there to flee amid warnings that parts of Bangkok could be inundated by up to 5 feet (1.5 metres) of water.
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Thailand floods: Bangkok in 'crisis mode', second airport shuts down
Bangkok's second airport shut down today as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in "crisis mode" to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge.
