Saturday, April 02, 2011

Naturally bad in Thailand

Over the last two weeks, Thailand has experienced two savage natural disasters.

The other week an earthquake centred on the Thai - Burmese border near the city of Chang Rai. Luckily for the Thai's this happened in a sparsely populated area and there was a report of only one death. On the Burmese side 100 people sadly lost their lives and 100,000s of people were made homeless. The quake was felt as far south as Bangkok

This week the south of Thailand, they experienced an early monsoon with some areas getting there years rainfall in less than 48 hours. On some islands the Thai Navy had to be called in to rescue tourists off them and the Airport and ferry services to Koh Samui were cancelled due to bad weather. This stranded 1000s of holiday makers. Sadly several village's were washed away in flash mud slides, the death toll could be as high as a 100.

Thailand will get over all this, after the 2004 Tsunami, things will have to get bad to beat that.

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