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Beach Road

Tropical storm smashes Pattaya

Tropical storm smashes Pattaya

 Tropical storm smashes Pattaya, Vamco formed in the South China Sea on September 13, 2015 and went ashore in Vietnam a few days later. Although short-lived Vamco dropped very heavy rainfall over the mountainous terrain of central Vietnam and in Laos and eastern Thailand. It arrived in Pattaya on the 16th and caused an enormous amount of flooding and damage.

Opposite Soi 6

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For months they have been working of a drainage system to clear the water that builds up on Beach Rd at Soi 6. You can see what Vamco did to this location. 🙂

New drainage system

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The building project continues, whether it will do the job or not we will just have to wait and see.

Following day back to normal

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It does not take these industrious Thai workers long to repair the damage and get back to normal.

 The power of nature

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These pavers have not been down for very long. 🙂 

 

The thunder that accompanied the lightening was the loudest I have ever heard in my condo. It seemed to be exploding right above my building.

Here is a video from my balcony

Big electrical storm in Pattaya

A classic photo

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7-Eleven staff are very dedicated people. I found this photo on a Thai Visa forum, it was attributed to this Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nuunut5555.

I hope the packaging is waterproof. 🙂

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This is a very common sight in Pattaya after a storm.

Beach Road underwater

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You just can’t build a drain or a gutter that can handle this volume of water.

The locals take it in their stride

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As you can clearly see, these guys couldn’t car less about the flood waters. 🙂

Barge blown off mooring

Pattaya barge blown off mooring

Strong winds in Pattaya today blew one of the para-sailing barges off its mooring. It is now stuck on the sand 100 meters from the beach.


 Long tail tub

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Thailand is famous for it’s long tail boats, well he is a Long tail tub. 🙂

Is this a road or a river?

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Busy streets turn into rivers.

Houston, we have a problem.

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Hey buddy, you are going nowhere. 🙂

Grab him and bag him

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The guys look very casual with this encounter.

 Hmmm! I wonder what the problem is?

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A spray of WD 40 is all it needs.

The solution is simple

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A little water is not going to stop this guy. 🙂

No coffee tonight

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There is an enormous amount of damage caused by these storms.

Roads turn into rivers

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All hands on deck.

Towel or a Burka?

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I think she is losing the battle to stay dry. 🙂

Back to the beach

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repairing the beach in the wet season is a never ending job.

Tropical storm smashes Pattaya

Tropical storm smashes Pattaya

The footpath has been undermine by the force of the storm water. I really don’t think there is any solution to this problem.

 

So much damage to the footpath when a Tropical storm smashes Pattaya

Tropical storm smashes Pattaya

After last nights storm we have a beautiful sunny day.

Saturday September 19

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The sunshine, boats and tourists a back, everything is normal again.

Fantastic light show is now just a memory

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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