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Storm pulverises Pattaya

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Storm pulverises Pattaya

Storm pulverises Pattaya on the morning of August 27 2021. Naturally the beach was badly damaged as usual. However the council will roll out the heavy equipment tomow & quickly repair the damage. This photo was taken from my balcony at markland Condo around 11 am.

Due to the wild downpour

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It does not take long for the beach to be damaged.

Tonnes of sand is washed away

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I think this may be a dress rehersal for next month, September of course is Pattaya’s wettest month.

Opposite Markland Condo

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Loacated opposite Soi 2 in north Pattaya.

That’s the A-One Hotel in the foreground

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The damage is the same every 50 or 60 meters along the beach. Usually opposite a Soi, the water floods downhill from 2nd Road.

Soi Diana is flooded

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It seems every part of Pattaya is affected. 

Patrick’s Belgium Steakhouse

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As you can see there is water all along the arcade. However apparantly none acually got to the inside of the restaurant.

Patrick’s

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Looking down the arcade to 2nd Road.

Storm pulverises Pattaya & the arcade is underwater

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Hopefully all the restaurants escaped serious damage.

Many Pattaya roads flooded

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This result is not unusual, it’s a common occurance in the wet season.

Beach Road

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 All this floodwater spills over to the beach and causes lots of damage.

Jomtien Beach

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Imagine the force needed to inflict this amount of damage.

Ok let’s just fix it. 🙂

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They moved fairly quickly to repair the damage.

Have you checked your boat lately?

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This can only end in tears.

The Pattaya weather forecast

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Spot on I would say. 🙂

The last big storm

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The following day the heavey equipment was hard at work reparing the damage, I’m sure they will return again tomorrow.

August 29

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Two days after the big storm it has been raining most of the night causing this damage.

Huge pumps opposite Soi 6

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Even these smart looking pumps can’t cope with the volume of water.

Reinforcments have arrived

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Whoever has the contract for repairing the beach is making a fortune. 🙂

Hopefully this is what awaits.

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 I thought I would include a photo of a beautiful Pattaya day, hopefully this weather will return soon.

Many thanks for visiting my Storm pulverises Pattaya photo blog, I must admit I really love a big storm, it’s just a shame it results in so much damge to the beach.

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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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