April storm smashes Pattaya
April storm smashes Pattaya, In the 10 years I have lived here I think this was the most intense storm I have experienced. The thunder & lightning was unbelievable, I thought Armageddon had finally arrived.
Dogs on the roof
I love this photo, credit to Pattaya News.
Black clouds arrive
That’s the MYTT Hotel in Soi 3.
Visibility over the bay is disappearing.
It was much worse than this over the next hour or so.
There goes the beach
Opposite Soi 4 in North Pattaya. There is no way the drains & gutters could contain the incredible volume of water.
New pumps opposite Soi 6
The council are trying to control the storm damage to the beach.
These new pumps can’t handle the volume.
The best solution is to accept the inevitable damage & send in the excavators quickly to repair the damage.
And that’s what they did…..
The following morning on April 12 the cavalry arrived.
They need to retrieve a lot of sand
As you can clearly see many tons of sand has been washed into the bay. If anyone thinks they can find a way to stop this happening, I have some advice for them, FORGET IT. 🙂
Huge volume of sand
This gives you an idea of the amount of sand that is swept into Pattaya Bay.
Two of the many things I love about living in Thailand are the magic sunsets,& the magnificent storms that demonstrate all of Mother Natures incredible power.
Soi Buakhao flooded in April, 2021.
They have seen it all before. 🙂
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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.
