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Storms smash Pattaya beach
August 4, 2015by David Herd
Here’s how it starts
Storms smash Pattaya beach
Storms smash Pattaya beach on a regular basis, especially in the wet season between July & November. Gutters & drains just can’t handle to huge downpours.
Here is the result
It’s a never ending problem for the local council who can’t seem to cope with the problem.
Ugly & dangerous
It’s both ugly & dangerous and won’t e solved until they improve the drainage problems.
Beach Road goes under
There are no drains and gutters that can cope with the amount of water in such a short time.
The footpath disappears
After 20 minutes of rain this is the result, no footpath. 🙂
Beach Rd Pattaya flooded, more water than Songkran.
You can see the sand being washed away
In the wet season between June & November this is a regular occurrence.
Storms smash Pattaya beach
The storm water also runs down from 2nd road to add to what is one Beach Road.
Find yourself an island
The beach looks quite ugly after the storm.
Sandbags
Sandbags are used as a cunning plan to keep the beach intact, clearly it does not work. 🙂
The roads flood so quickly as the drains just can’t handle the incredible volume of water, it then spills over to the beach. Often these storms only last for 30 or 40 minutes however that’s enough time to cause havoc.
The cavalry arrives
Normally soon after the storm you will see these guys busy restoring the damage. It’s now August 2015 & sadly in the last six months they have been strangely absent.
After the storm a beautiful day returns.
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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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