AFP, Reuters
BANGKOK, THAILAND: The Thai capital could face 'the worst storm surge in 50 years' any time from now until next month.
Mr Smith Dhammasaroj, chief of the National Disaster Warning Centre, told a seminar yesterday that if a storm was to gather, it would sweep through at a speed of 118kmph.
That would cause waves of 2.2m to 4.5m high and result in the worst storm to hit Bangkok in 50 years, he was quoted as saying by The Nation.
The province of Samut Prakan, 29km south of Bangkok, could be hit as well, said Mr Smith, urging officials to set up a good warning system, such as a live television pool, and implement measures to keep floodwaters out.
But officials from Samut Prakan say Mr Smith has failed to pinpoint a date and his vague remarks have caused unnecessary panic among some locals.
In Bangkok, officials are staging an emergency drill on Sunday to test the city's response in the event of a major storm, The Nation reported.
The city is distributing a basic handbook to residents on what to do during such disasters, said Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin.
He said the drill is a precautionary step, so the public should not worry unduly. There should be ample time to issue early warnings because storms usually take four to six days to form, he added.
Once known as the 'Venice of the East' Bangkok was founded on a swampy flood plain along the Chao Phraya River.
Thailand and many countries in the region face the risk of flooding each year during the May-October monsoon.
This year, the Mekong River - which runs through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam - has swollen to levels not seen since 1966.
Parts of north and north-eastern Thailand have been flooded while soldiers in Laos are racing to build barriers along the river. Water levels have risen past the flood danger level, the authorities in Laos have said.
'The water is still rising...we're working on building higher levees,' a Foreign Ministry spokesman said this week.
Large swathes of Laos have been inundated by flood waters for the past month, he added, including Luang Prabang province - home to the ancient royal capital of the same name that is a Unesco World Heritage site.
Vietnam is also battling the country's worst floods in decades.
At least 120 people have been killed after days of heavy rains triggered by the remnants of a tropical storm, officials said. A further 44 are missing.
Heavy rains, followed by flash floods and landslides in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces since last Friday, have destroyed 798 houses and flooded some 17,800 other buildings.
Mr Smith Dhammasaroj, chief of the National Disaster Warning Centre, told a seminar yesterday that if a storm was to gather, it would sweep through at a speed of 118kmph.
That would cause waves of 2.2m to 4.5m high and result in the worst storm to hit Bangkok in 50 years, he was quoted as saying by The Nation.
The province of Samut Prakan, 29km south of Bangkok, could be hit as well, said Mr Smith, urging officials to set up a good warning system, such as a live television pool, and implement measures to keep floodwaters out.
But officials from Samut Prakan say Mr Smith has failed to pinpoint a date and his vague remarks have caused unnecessary panic among some locals.
In Bangkok, officials are staging an emergency drill on Sunday to test the city's response in the event of a major storm, The Nation reported.
The city is distributing a basic handbook to residents on what to do during such disasters, said Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin.
He said the drill is a precautionary step, so the public should not worry unduly. There should be ample time to issue early warnings because storms usually take four to six days to form, he added.
Once known as the 'Venice of the East' Bangkok was founded on a swampy flood plain along the Chao Phraya River.
Thailand and many countries in the region face the risk of flooding each year during the May-October monsoon.
This year, the Mekong River - which runs through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam - has swollen to levels not seen since 1966.
Parts of north and north-eastern Thailand have been flooded while soldiers in Laos are racing to build barriers along the river. Water levels have risen past the flood danger level, the authorities in Laos have said.
'The water is still rising...we're working on building higher levees,' a Foreign Ministry spokesman said this week.
Large swathes of Laos have been inundated by flood waters for the past month, he added, including Luang Prabang province - home to the ancient royal capital of the same name that is a Unesco World Heritage site.
Vietnam is also battling the country's worst floods in decades.
At least 120 people have been killed after days of heavy rains triggered by the remnants of a tropical storm, officials said. A further 44 are missing.
Heavy rains, followed by flash floods and landslides in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces since last Friday, have destroyed 798 houses and flooded some 17,800 other buildings.
13 comments:
This is a punishment to A Siem, who did a bad action to Khmer.
Go to hell A Siem!
That could very well be true 7:42am
He He , Monster storm hit BANK COCK..!!! the city of under age WHORE and LADY BOYZ ..
the word under age and whore should not go in the same sentence. Underage goes with trafficked! If you don't know any better you deserve that storm to hit you in the face too!
From Khmer Student
This storm is contaminated from USA, if you notified, it's the dust storm, once it hit next one will fallow. This is a punishment dud!!.
KAMMAR because of SIAM Prathana Thom. Down to you Thieves!!!.
Phnom Penh Rolum
Prey Nokor Rolear
Bangkok Kchat-Kchay
Sambay Angkor
The regime of Hun Sen & its CPP will run out soon from now to Octocber.
Bun Rany & Hun Sen know it.They do believe in the Black Magic that will hit them back.The High interests of their Sins where they had deposited into their Karma Accounts.CPP had picked no 4 = Death
Believe or not this is the last day of Sdech Korn who is reincarted by Hun Sen.
Pls wait & see it.
No one ever heard of such thing as "Monster Storm" to hit Bangkok.
In fact, if this is going to happen, it must be a CURSE from the Jew's GOD who sides with Cambodia. So watch out Thailand.
False Prophet from Long Beach
Poor Khmers, Cannot beat Thailand in any ways except barking on the net.
Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978, and in January 1979 installed in Phnom Penh a new communist regime friendly to Hanoi.
This invasion not only provoked a Chinese attack on Vietnam in February 1979 but also posed a threat to Thailand's security. Bangkok could no longer rely on Cambodia as a buffer against Vietnamese power. Bangkok was forced to assume the role of a frontline state against a resurgent communist Vietnam, which had 300,000 troops in Cambodia and Laos. The Thai government began increasing its defense capabilities. While visiting Washington in February 1979, Prime Minister Kriangsak asked for and received reassurances of military support from the United States. His government also launched a major diplomatic offensive to press for the withdrawal of all Vietnamese forces from Cambodia and for continued international recognition of Democratic Kampuchea under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. As part of that offensive, Kriangsak also journeyed to Moscow in March 1979--the first visit ever by a Thai prime minister--to explain the Thai position on the Cambodian question and to reassure the Soviets that Thailand's anti-Vietnamese position was neither anti-Soviet nor pro-Chinese. Such reassurances were believed to be necessary in view of Vietnamese accusations that Thailand collaborated with China and the United States in aiding and abetting the Khmer Rouge forces against the Heng Samrin regime.
The Thai offensive, backed by Bangkok's ASEAN partners, was rewarded in a United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution adopted in November 1979. The resolution called for immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces from Cambodia, asked all nations to refrain from interfering in, or staging acts of aggression against, Cambodia, and called on the UN secretary general to explore the possibility of an international conference on Cambodia.
To all humanity,
This is the act of God and even the most advanced technology cannot do anthing with it.
Cambodia has never got any most destructive natural disasters, but she has suffered the acts of men, that is atrocities of wars and genocide caused by human being.
Thai and Siam and Vietnamse people are all human being. They cannot escape the sufferings by the acts of men and by the acts of GOD.
So, Siams and Vietnamese should have let Khmer people live in peace, harmony and friendliness.
Black Cat
Khmer farmer: Perhaps God is not in favor of homosexuality, and therefore, He decided to anathematize Bangcock, the capital of copious whores. Moreover, the Israel had the same incident, according to the Jerusalem Post.
good! i hope the sea will inundate all of bangcock and become one huge sewage canal! god bless cambodia.
God no, Budda yes
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