Hours after the rain had
stopped, Beach Road was still flooded.
Vittaya Yoondorn
The Mother’s Day storm that washed away Pattaya’s annual
parade left a lasting impression, depositing more than 10 centimeters of
water on Beach Road before the city’s inadequate drainage system could
remove it.
Rain fell for more than two hours Aug. 12 as storm clouds
covered most of the Eastern Seaboard.
Flooding hit other areas as well, including Sukhumvit
Road, which had about five centimeters of standing water, and south and
central Pattaya, which had about eight centimeters flowing over sidewalks.
Backed up drains, of course, were the main cause of the
flooding, not an amount of rain most cities could handle effortlessly. Foul
water stunk up streets around Beach Road from sois 3-9. It took hours longer
than the storm itself for the drainage system to catch up.
