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03-18-24 14:30 #56474
Posts: 6493Flood in Bangkok
I was in BKK in the dry season, cruising on water taxis on the Chao Phraya.
Noticed the concrete dike along old town and Chinatown is old and very high; the ground and houses next to the dike were about 10 feet lower than river level, even in the dry season.
Rainy season creeps me out.
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03-18-24 13:55 #56473
Posts: 2672Cover Walkways
Originally Posted by Ranvir226 [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 08:09 #56472
Posts: 544Never an EV tok tok
Originally Posted by Werqweq [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 08:09 #56471
Posts: 537This was 20 years ago on my first trip. It was raining hard and I past by a metal sewer grate / drain. OMG! It was just like in the movies. Rats were pouring out of the sewers drains into the streets. Freaked me out.
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03-18-24 03:52 #56470
Posts: 193Risk of electrocution
Originally Posted by Werqweq [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 02:53 #56469
Posts: 5Originally Posted by Llantarnam [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 02:39 #56468
Posts: 318Depends
How do you get around? MRT & BTS are fine. I once saw a long tail boat and car fill up at the same station (this was not on Sukhumvitt or Ratchda). If this is a major concern stay near your favorite place to monger but this wouldn't make my top ten list of considerations when planning a trip to Thailand.
Originally Posted by Llantarnam [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 01:55 #56467
Posts: 27Originally Posted by Nyezhov [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 00:27 #56466
Posts: 1205Originally Posted by Llantarnam [View Original Post]
If it floods, however, beware. Don't Wade through the floods. There are things in the water. Horrible things, loathsome and bloodthirsty. The rain starts their life cycle and when it floods they are ready to feed. Hungry, slathering, needing the Taste of blood and flesh. You step in the flood, and the next thing you know, your feet have been stripped to the Bone as you scream and agony and the boys in brown attempt to pull you to safety.
The worst is at night, when they surf the floods in empty pizza boxes and plastic cups leading to the rending of Flesh not only below the water, but above. Think of the horror at you watch them swarm a lady boy ripping and tearing at the parts not needed anymore. I remember seeing a group of Indian tourists who were just happily sharing a Coke before the creatures surfed down on them with teeth slashing and chattering, leaving nothing but skeletons holding hands.
If you didn't know why Thailand empties out during rainy season, you do now. Beware.
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03-18-24 00:15 #56465
Posts: 1205Originally Posted by Llantarnam [View Original Post]
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03-17-24 22:10 #56464
Posts: 256Originally Posted by Llantarnam [View Original Post]
There are days (evenings usually) when Bangkok will be flooded to the extent you will not be able to drive a car / get a taxi for a few hours as the roads are so flooded, and you should avoid walking at this time due to very real risks of electrocution or other bad things, but while the rainfall is heavy, it is also mostly over in an hour or two.
It's not bad enough to factor into my decisions on whether to go or not. Merly a minor annoyance occasionally when you're planning to meet someone, and they send you a picture of their flooded outside and say they can't come.
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03-17-24 18:00 #56463
Posts: 286How wet is the wet season?
I normally visit SE Asia a couple of times a year during the English winter (typically November and March).
During these months the weather in Thailand is normally very nice. However, I was thinking of visiting July time this year which is middle of the rainy season. I've been to Singapore many times, which has a fairly consistent climate of about 160 mm of rain each month and didn't notice it being particularly rainy. Bangkok is about 180 mm during the rainy season, so it doesn't look much worse than Singapore is all year round. However, you do hear some horror stories about flooding in Bangkok when it rains.
So how wet is the wet season. Does it seriously impinge on nocturnal activities?
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03-17-24 17:21 #56462
Posts: 286Originally Posted by TConor [View Original Post]
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03-17-24 17:17 #56461
Posts: 286Originally Posted by Steve9696 [View Original Post]
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03-17-24 16:26 #56460
Posts: 2672Don't Mix 7th Heaven In
Originally Posted by TConor [View Original Post]
By contrast my one desperate Kasalong experience the lady was old not attractive and the facilities downright scary.
These don't belong in the same sentence IMO. Pay the extra few bucks and go to 7 Heaven. It's no contest.