DannyS1951

I was under the impression that the SRT had very little say in the airport link as this was a contract farmed out to friends of a certain politician. That it's now buggered up probably isn't down to them.

Look in your closest Max Value. That's the old Jusco supermarkets. I think there is one in Rangsit. They have a small baking section, but at the store near me it's not in the most  obvious position so you made need to ask. Look for the flour in brown paper bags and you may find hard, cake, rye and wholemeal. I've seen white chocolate in our one, but I don't  know if it's what you are looking for.

Far too much blood on this man's hands. It's the blood of innocents and the blood of good boys who signed up, but expected to be properly equipped.

Pattanakan Sois 65 and 69 after the bridges across the small canal into the Muang Thong moo baan in Pravet have above knee height water in the roads. In fact Soi 69 has had some water for almost a month but this is tied to the level of Klong Pravet Burirom as this road is below the edge of the canal. The Army and the Democrat party have been running trucks up and down the sois for the last couple of days, but I managed two trips in my pickup today.

It seems I will go along with the majority response. What a silly juvenile article. If you want to make a political point come out openly and say what it is. If you are having childish fantasies about Yingluck and feel the need to protect her reputation there are probably better places to do it.

This is the third Bangkok flood I have had the pleasure of living through. In 1983 there were virtually no real flood defenses and Bangkok was inundated. Flood defenses were increased and by 1995 only low lying parts of the city had real problems. As with today inhabitants outside the defenses certainly suffered and forced open water gates especially in the Minburi region. This time the city has done quite well although obviously more is needed to be to done.

To criticize Sukhumbhand for doing his job seems very strange unless you feel that all Democrats must be evil and all red shirts angelic. He is the governor of Bangkok, not the prime minister of Thailand. His job is to protect Bangkok. Does Khun Pavin really want the Bangkok governor to breach Bangkok's flood defenses? If so what was the point of building them for last twenty years? In fact why didn't Taksin while prime minister command the dismantling of the defenses?

Of course the problem with flood defenses is that there will always be an edge where there is a transition from defended to not defended. The inhabitants on the not defended side of this transition will always be wetter, and wetter for longer than if there had been no defenses. So maybe Khun Pavin feels there should be no defense so all the rich people in Bangkok get as wet as their neighbours. Unfortunately there are far more poor people in Bangkok who will get even wetter as the tend to live in single storied buildings while those richer have an upper floor to retreat to.

A good argument could be made for pushing the flood defenses further out and creating islands behind levees for urban and industrial concentrations in the flood plains. Shame that this article doesn't make any sensible arguments, in fact I get the impression that writer feels that if they couldn't burn the city they should maybe try flooding it instead. Certainly that Phue Thai MP driving the digger a couple of weeks ago looked like he was trying to do that.