Yeah, that is the only thing you can say about the Great Flood of Thailand of 2011. Will the water actually come into the centre of BKK. You can scour the web read all the newspaper clippings and reports you want but you are no closer to revealing the truth. Only time will tell.
They are sooooo screwed up over here that there is no way to tell. The city of BKK has a governor, not sure if this is a higher rank than mayor but in any event he told the Prime Minister to pound salt the other day. Refusing to agree with her and allow her to open a sluice gate that would allow water to flow quicker to the sea, thus perhaps alleviating some of the flooding in the north a little sooner than the suggested 2 months they are talking about now. His position was to not allow inner BKK to get wet. (we are kinda in inner bkk, so I thought his standing up to her was cool). Now they say that the story will be told by this Friday. Of course they have said that about every Friday or Satruday since the middle of September. Truly they have no idea. I do know that people to the north are under water, my golf course among them.
Of course I have no idea what they mean by the "north". Is that north of BKK or north like Chang Mai? For sure it still includes Ayutthaya. News is hard to come by and means even less because they talk about districts and areas and such that I have not been able to figure out or even find on a map.
Suffice to say that you now start doing what is right for you. As so many locals have. Today I bought a jug of water, 20 litres. Normally I would pay to have this delivered to my kitchen for 70 baht. About $2.25. I found a truck on the street and the guy was delivering water jugs to a hotel. I asked him if I could buy some. 400 baht he said. I bought two. That is 800 baht = $24.00 for water that before the flooding began cost $4.50. Don't care. Don't wanna be rationing water or worrying about it. So I overpaid and the fella who delivered it wants to come back again next week. And if things don't chill as far as the flooding goes, I may just give him a call.
A positive occured last week. I found a golf course and a game with a few friends from the washed out course. Played twice last week and playing again for sure on Monday. Some relief for me. Out of the house and stretching my legs a bit.
News from the group. Lena had her wisdom teeth removed at the hospital on Saturday. So it is all soup and sleep for her.
The three of us are scheduled to fly to Koh Samui on Friday and spend a weekend on the beach taking it easy. Looking forward to that.
Hockey beat bears mentioning. I haven't received the official parade route from any Leaf fans yet but I hear that the route will definitely go down Bay Street and finish at the ACC. That will be in June of course and I may just be back in town. But I think my sock drawer, what with all the traveling and all, will need rearranging so I am not going to be able to make it. Sell my spot to one of the suffering masses who have waited forever for that day to come. Oh and bonne chance mon amis...
Grey Cup soon. Not even sure who will be in it but as always I know it will be a barn burner. I will try to download when it is posted. Last years version only has three seeders so it would take until next year to download so I had to past.
All for now. Hey daylight saving time ended. You are now exactly 12 hours behind again. Makes it easy, and also gives me a little bit of space to settle in to watch hockey in the morning. You have to believe me that it is the coolest way to watch hockey. 7 in the morning. Game is over by 10 and you tee off at 11. Wonderbar.
Sawasdee Krup
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