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Samrang Pring / Reuters
A girl sits in a bucket as her sister pushes it through floodwaters on a street in Kandal province, Cambodia, on October 10. Floods have killed 207 people in Cambodia and more than 100,000 hectares of rice paddies have been damaged, the Cambodian National Disaster Management Committee (CNDMC) announced on Monday.
Samrang Pring / Reuters
Schoolboys on a flooded street in Kandal province, Cambodia, on October 10. The floods have displaced more than 300,000 families, according to the CNDMC.
Sukree Sukplang / Reuters
An aerial view of a flooded area in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on October 10. Thai rescue workers scrambled on Monday to prevent a humanitarian disaster as the worst flooding in half a century swamped large sections of the country, shut factories and stranded thousands of people.
Sukree Sukplang / Reuters
A policeman directs traffic in a flooded area of Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on October 10. About 261 people have died since late July in flood-related incidents, the Thai Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said.
I was impressed to see the traffic cop still at his post. Read more about the floods, which have affected Vietnam and the Philippines as well as Cambodia and Thailand.
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I just did a four day motorbike ride from the capital to Siem Reap. The devastation is incredible, but the people of Cambodia are absolutely phenomenal. Their homes have been innundated and their cropland is under a lake, but they are surviving with a smile and were always helpful to myself and companions when tires needed to be changed or when motorbikes got washed downstream and the villagers would jump into the water to rescue our equipment. I've never been so impressed with a group of people. Please donate if you can to the the people of Thailand and Cambodia. I know its hard to give when so many are suffering in the USA, but until you see the devastation first hand (these photos are great on this site) - it can perhaps change minds. International Red Cross seems to be the most reliable source for donating on the web.
My wife is current at our house in BKK, the water is at the front door. We currently living in a community just north of BKK, (daughter is in college in BKK), it is built next to a drainage canal. It is one of many new communities built in this area during the last decade. They were ALL built in a known flood zone.
We just moved everything to the second floor, including extra bottled water, food, and cooking stove. The wife says, "Everything will be fine as long as the ATM works." Ha! Ha! I'm sitting in the USA putting a new roof on a house due to Irean....
We have friends in Central Thailand, that have their rice farm and house flooded. Along with his new town house near BKK. His father also lives on the farm, in a house built a hundred years ago. It sits on elevated pilings, just like almost all the old buildings, he is high and dry...
My/wifes rice farm is enjoying the extra rain in NE Thailand. Our rice crop will be great this year. Our house outside of Udon is built on a elevated lot. Just like ALL the new buildings in our area. No water problems...
IMO - Those who build in known flood areas, suffer the consequences. And the POLITICIANS who let the developers build there, should also...