Bangkok floods

Thai capital faces flooding: drainage systems can not cope with the fallout, and meteorologists forecast rain showers will continue until the end of the week. In September, a 15-million city fell rainfall, surpassing the monthly figures of the last fifty years. In 21 of the city declared anxiety, some of the roads washed out with water, move them paralyzed.
 City authorities said that on September 25 about 30 streets were under water, on-call service took more than three hours to pump out the water from the main roads. On this day, rain fell on the city, an hour has dropped almost 140 millimeters of rain in that drainage systems are able to cope with the trouble-free two times less water - 60 millimeters per hour.
 On the night of Thursday, heavy rains caused flooding in the popular resort on the island of Phuket at Patong beach in the water level in some streets and reached a height of 1 meter. After the increase of the water level in the channel Bang Yay residents of nearby villages started obkladyvat their homes with sandbags. In October 2011, the central part of Bangkok's Royal Palace and grounds were flooded by the release of the Chao Phraya River. Because of the severe flooding of the town were evacuated thousands of residents and tourists. The flood killed more than 500 people, no less than 150 thousand inhabitants homeless. By some estimates, the damage from the disaster exceeded $ 10 billion.