Violent winds and heavy rain damaged homes
and businesses last week. Meanwhile, Pattaya residents whose homes were
damaged can collect up to 10,000 baht each from the city for emergency
repairs.
Pratchaya Kerdthong
Pattaya residents whose homes were damaged a fierce overnight storm last
week can collect up to 10,000 baht each from the city for emergency
repairs.
Deputy Mayor Wutisak Rermkitkarn and Pattaya City Council Vice-President
Adison Phonlookin handed out bags of relief supplies to about 30
families near the Thamsamakee Temple in South Pattaya March 24 after a
gale-force winds and rain the day before ripped off roofs, felled trees
and flooded homes.
Ratchada Suwanbat, 41, said the storm tore off an aluminum roof on her
convenience store and that a tree had fallen on two cars. Nearly all the
windows in her home were also broken.
Sunee Kiatbaisri, 45, also lost a roof. No one was injured and she has
since covered her home with a canvas tarp.
Wutisak said city workers will detail all the damage and residents can
apply for compensation up to 10,000 baht each.
The unseasonal rain resulted from a high-pressure system that moved out
of China and through Laos and Vietnam, bringing lower temperatures and
heavy rain, especially to Thailand’s south where numerous disaster areas
were declared due to flooding.
