BANGKOK - Thailand's flood Kian day just getting worse. Today it is increasingly rising luberan water and close to downtown Bangkok, the capital of the country so that the white elephant is threatened paralyzed all its activities. Moreover, a puddle of water is also predicted to rise and more likely to reach 13 feet or more than 2.5 meters.
The villagers still desperate to survive even though the government had asked them to immediately evacuate to a much safer place. Those who survive mainly residents living in the area of the Chao Phraya river, in fact also been concerned with rising flood waters. They can only hope the weather forecast this afternoon would be better, and tidal waves will not be higher in the river with a lot of these canals.
So far the downtown area of Bangkok is still the safest place to flee, because this region is relatively dry conditions compared to a number of suburbs, which had flooded up to waist high average adult. This is the first disaster that occurred in 1942 after King Bhumibol Adhulyadej led the country is experiencing the same calamity, even the stagnant flood almost all parts of Thailand that lasted for months.
According to information from the local Red Cross, a wave of water which equals 480 thousand Olympic-sized pool to flood the area south to the sea through the city of Bangkok, while the tides have caused the inundation of sea water was moving towards the opposite or can not everywhere. The Red Cross said it took the management of very targeted for flood control, and directs it to Luat through the Gulf of Thailand. The organization also has been shoulder to shoulder with the government to strengthen the defense in Bangkok drainage system in order not to block the flood of existing barricades, and water will inundate the city.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawathra continues to undertake flood control can be done as effectively as possible. Last Friday Prime Minister of the newly elected official is ordered to bypass local flood control channels in order to accelerate the release of flood water into the sea. But this is opposed by the agency and they prefer dry canals that exist with using the pump. In addition to inhibiting the Thai economy, the floods also threaten public health, particularly to diseases such as infection and gastrointestinal diseases. Infection is more feared, because the government got the information a lot of crocodiles and snakes are loose and hanging around in dirty water, so the hunters reptiles are deployed to capture and secure society.
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