forcebwithu Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 That was quite the storm last night. I was in bed when it passed through and didn't bother to get up and look at the rain as I could hear it well enough from the comfy of my bed. There was crack of lightening that sounded like it hit the water tower 50m from my house. My poor dog almost had cardiac arrest with that one. Photos of the flooding on PN. https://www.facebook.com/Thepattayanews/posts/1188446648573009 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painter Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 OK, so these are caused by last night's wind, but seemed a good place to put them 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I realised last night that I'm a child of the digital age. It was midnight and I was about to switch all the lights off and hit the hay when I heard heavy rain on the roof. Instead of going to the window or front door and having a gander at what was going on outside, instead I opened the TMD weather radar on my phone! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiFlyer Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) 17 hours ago, forcebwithu said: That was quite the storm last night. I was in bed when it passed through and didn't bother to get up and look at the rain as I could hear it well enough from the comfy of my bed. There was crack of lightening that sounded like it hit the water tower 50m from my house. My poor dog almost had cardiac arrest with that one. Photos of the flooding on PN. https://www.facebook.com/Thepattayanews/posts/1188446648573009 It hit really hard over here in Jomtien as well. It woke me up about 1 AM and I am glad it did. The wind was so strong that it was driving the rain into the condo under the balcony window/doors. I had an excellently sized pool of water heading to my computer equipment area. I said "SHIT". The TGF was up out of bed within seconds armed with mop and bucket. We have been in this particular condo for two years now and this is only the second time that water was driven in by the wind and the previous time it was relatively minor. This time it was all three balcony doors and they did not have their seals all go bad at once. I live in VT2A (the building is 20 years old or so now) and the original doors were all single pane. Guys who have replaced the original doors with double or triple panes do not have these problems. Also being close to the Jomtiem Complex Blue Light Bars, the noise from the very late night birthday parties can be terrible on the South side of the building. At least it was pre-covid. I am expecting the noise level to begin to ramp up once again as tourism resumes. Multiple pane doors eliminate these problems. I am a long term renter, so I am not going to pay for this particular upgrade as it is expensive. I had a very rough estimate of 250,000 THB for a 3 unit condo (130 sqm with three balconies). I am also not highly motivated to push this because we are on the North side of the building, which shields us from the impending birthday party noise. Edited June 21, 2022 by ChiFlyer 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWA Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 20 hours ago, Painter said: OK, so these are caused by last night's wind, but seemed a good place to put them A mate just sent me almost the same photo from his walk this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob lt Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Some tosser in a 4x4 was spotted driving too fast in my small soi through 9 inches of water creatingabow wave. The result was 2 motorbikes knocked over and all the plant pots and bins moved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 35 minutes ago, bob lt said: Some tosser in a 4x4 was spotted driving too fast in my small soi through 9 inches of water creatingabow wave I hope his bow doors were open! A Pattaya Enterprise that I would be happy to see!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob lt Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 24 minutes ago, Derek Dangleberries said: I hope his bow doors were open! A Pattaya Enterprise that I would be happy to see!! Selfish cnuts shouldn't have a driving licence. Oh wait a minute, maybe he didn't have on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 All clear....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) there must be a thriving business in Pattaya fixing "hydrolocked" engines in cars (when water ingress causes catastrophic failure inside an engine). Always worth remembering chaps, very often if it's deep enough to cover or meet the front bumper, it's possibly (depending on car make and model) deep enough to suck all that water into the air filter and then into the engine, plus if it gets inside the vehicle itself, some ECU's (Subaru's for example) are located within the passenger footwell under the carpet, which is enough to write a car off here in the UK, if it mullers it. On some cars the air intake itself is not visible as it's located in the inner wing, often behind a plastic wheelarch liner. Apologies for going slightly OT. Edited June 23, 2022 by Butch 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Bit of a sprinkling this morning....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 3 hours ago, Blue Streak said: Bit of a sprinkling this morning....... Yes indeed, no less than five inches of sprinkling in my garden, according to the water gauge bucket. That makes a total of over 11 inches since Sunday, and there was me thinking that the rainy season had failed again. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajs123 Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 The reservoirs must be reasonably full by now, with the soapys being closed, the reduced number of tourists and the recent rains. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 All clear, at the moment..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 13 hours ago, rajs123 said: The reservoirs must be reasonably full by now, with the soapys being closed, the reduced number of tourists and the recent rains. Unless someone pulled the drain plug, they were quite full a month ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 It sure was............... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 It's trying very hard at the moment........just some drizzle..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 All clear... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 Raining now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Showers at the moment........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Streak Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Has been for the past 90 minutes or so, no heavy floooding on Soi Buakhao.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 The rain started here around 11:00 PM last night. When I got up this morning my rain gauge bucket only had about an inch in it at 9:00 AM, so it must have stopped during the night, or eased off a lot. We've had a lot of rain this morning, though, it stopped around an hour ago and the rain gauge bucket now has a full 5 inches in it. We've averaged about an inch of rain per hour this morning, which is pretty good going. Last night, I was checking the rain on the radar and I could see that the heaviest stuff was heading for Laem Chabang where the GF lives. Her gaff is prone to flooding, so I wasn't surprised to hear that the dogs woke her up at 1:00 AM because the water had got into the house and was flooding it. This is what it looked like this morning once the sun came up: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nampla69 Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Just stopped. I bought an emergency umbrella last night about 2am for 200 baht .......... before you laugh it's a really good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Toy Boy said: The rain started here around 11:00 PM last night. When I got up this morning my rain gauge bucket only had about an inch in it at 9:00 AM, so it must have stopped during the night, or eased off a lot. We've had a lot of rain this morning, though, it stopped around an hour ago and the rain gauge bucket now has a full 5 inches in it. We've averaged about an inch of rain per hour this morning, which is pretty good going. Last night, I was checking the rain on the radar and I could see that the heaviest stuff was heading for Laem Chabang where the GF lives. Her gaff is prone to flooding, so I wasn't surprised to hear that the dogs woke her up at 1:00 AM because the water had got into the house and was flooding it. This is what it looked like this morning once the sun came up: Looks like there is, or will soon be a turd added to the filth of the water. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiFlyer Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Came through pretty strong in Jomtien as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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