It started to rain, around 9pm I suppose and I thought, “Isn’t that nice.” As it cools everything down and makes sleeping nice. I was in bed and watched a few movies and the rain continues and when I finally went to bed around 1am it was still coming down outside.
This morning I got up at about 7am and it was still raining, it had been steady rain, not pouring but also not light. My street is low in my area and many other streets drain off into it. And the drainage system is shit (most of Thailand is like this) so the water has a lot of trouble escaping and draining away.
So outside my front door I have my own lake, on the road it is thigh deep, in my yard just over my ankles. The local government did put new drainage in less than two years ago but it did absolutely nothing (I knew it would). They replaced the drain pipes, put in larger ones. Not much bigger than the ones they replaced.
The problem is where the water runs to, the flooding in this area will be terrible and all the houses there will be flooded now. There are houses just around the corner from me, less than 300mtrs that will all be underwater. They are much lower than my house and have flooded before.
This is the highest the water has ever been. It is over my last step and just under the porch area. I haven’t panicked, yet! I haven’t started putting things to higher areas, except my motorbike. I will keep monitoring the water as it is still raining steadily but the water hasn’t rose that much.
If it comes to that, I will have to put all the electrical gear onto the tables and benches, and the more unimportant stuff leave on the ground. Thankfully the house is all tiled so would be easy to clean if it did come to that and I also have insurance.
So at the moment I am just monitoring the water, watching the AFL football between Geelong V West Coast Eagles. Uploading some video and hopefully have that up on Youtube later today.
Brunty
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