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Title: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Vaiti on October 26, 2011, 02:06:42 PM http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/bangkok-underwater/100178/ (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/bangkok-underwater/100178/)
Some very interesting pictures in there. Surprised this isn't being talked about more in the news. Apparently these heavy rains have been going on since July, and it's just now gotten to the point where the river running through the city is about to burst it's dikes and nothing can be done about it. Will put most of Bangkok under 1.5 meters of water. Pretty intense. Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Tale on October 26, 2011, 02:34:59 PM It's on the news every night in Australia, as I guess it's in our region.
Former co-worker on Facebook says the locals don't mind... Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: 01101010 on October 26, 2011, 03:05:31 PM It's on the news every night in Australia, as I guess it's in our region. Former co-worker on Facebook says the locals don't mind... :ye_gods: Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Trippy on October 26, 2011, 03:09:30 PM I only heard about it cause there was a tech article about how disk drive production is going to impacted (a lot of hard drives are made in Thailand).
Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Ironwood on October 27, 2011, 01:45:15 AM Ditto. Flooding at the WD plant or somesuch.
Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Mrbloodworth on October 27, 2011, 07:23:44 AM NPR has been covering it.
Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: bhodi on October 27, 2011, 07:24:49 AM HD Price article (http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/storage-sticker-shock-why-thailand-floods-mean-pricier-hard-drives/)
And someone making the best of it. (C.O. Reddit) (http://i.imgur.com/uw91h.jpg) Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: 01101010 on October 27, 2011, 08:05:30 AM HD Price article (http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/storage-sticker-shock-why-thailand-floods-mean-pricier-hard-drives/) And someone making the best of it. (C.O. Reddit) GAH!! Stop doing that! :ye_gods: Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Sir T on October 27, 2011, 08:35:52 AM Yeah, like you haven't seen a ladyboy dressed like a mermaid before.
In serious news there's been a lot of flooding in Ireland too. A policeman got swept away trying to direct traffic In Dublin and drowned Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: Ironwood on October 27, 2011, 08:58:09 AM That sounds like a good start to a joke, right up till the last two words.
:ye_gods: Title: Re: Bangkok flooded. Millions of residents being evacuated. Post by: bhodi on October 27, 2011, 12:38:53 PM GAH!! Stop doing that! :ye_gods: Different pic! :) |