Landslides damaged homes and businesses
in Rayong’s Taphong Sub-district.
Theerarak
Suthathiwong
A series of unusual flash floods damaged homes and
businesses in Rayong’s Taphong Sub-district, knocking down walls and
flooding storage rooms filled with expensive products.
Storms Oct. 14 saw three separate floods race down
the hill from Khao Yai Da overnight. Workers cutting down trees on the
hillside the day before reported a landslide and residents said floods
there were the first in 50 years.
Chaweewan Camsiripot, 32, said she was awakened by
the sound of running water and awoke to find her entire home quickly
flooded, including a storage room with a thousand of boxes of durian
chips worth 1,000 baht per box wholesale. She estimated damage at 1
million baht.
Other homes in the area reported damage to electrical
appliances. Ten homes in Siwalai Village were also flooded with resident
Bunchoo Pitsadan, 42, saying a wall at her house was destroyed by flood
waters.
