Chiangmai Cheers

Well we have finally seen the minimum temperature drop below 15 degrees celsius in Chiangmai and once again Chiangmai is a "DISASTER" area. Six months ago we were a disaster area because of lack of rain. A couple of months later we were a disaster area because of flooding (mind you I did not see much flooding).

This time the provincial disaster response services director Prajon Pratsakul, is seeking a budget of Bt14 million from the Interior Ministry to purchase around 80,000 sets of winter clothes and duvets for the cold victims. Whatever happened to the clothes and duvets which were bought last year,and for each of the past number of years?

For the past three years the Meteorological Department has warned us that we were about to face the coldest and longest winter on record. That hasn't happened, and as a retired weatherman, I soon learned not to be "the boy who called wolf".

What constitutes a disaster?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :
A disaster is either a natural or man-made hazard which has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the natural environment. It is classified as either a natural disaster or a man-made disaster. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event with great loss stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions.

Is this just another way to boost the coffers?

Perhaps he'd be better sticking to polotics

Last night, I finally had enough of the "Mi-dees" and "me-dies" and decided to look for an English commentary of the World cup on the internet. No joy from Radio 5 live, so I did a Google search snd found plenty of sites offering live streaming.
Unfortunately, I was unable to view these, as a message came up saying "An access to such information has been temporarily ceased due to the order of the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES)
under the authority of emergency decree B.E 2548 (A.D. 2005)."

This got me thinking, and the only reason that I can see for CRES taking this action must be that someone might think that Donovan's sliding celebration on scoring the winner for USA could possibly be viewed as a message from someone, far away, asking for the government to be brought to their knees.