The Flood - Please Help!!!

Flood waters in
southern Thailand
and northern Malaysia

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Flood waters that submerged a key southern Thai city, making it completely inaccessible by road, have begun to recede, as relief workers continue to ferry aid to areas where water sometimes rose up to rooftops. Soldiers and Thailand's only aircraft carrier have been sent to help victims of what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva called "one of the worst natural calamities" the country has seen. Eight southern provinces were affected by severe flooding, but the damage was most visible in the commercial hub of Hat Yai, a large city where the road system was transformed into a murky waterway completely inaccessible by cars







The death toll from Thailand's crippling floods has risen to over 120, officials said Thursday, after the weeks-long crisis spread south and affected tens of thousands more people, including tourists.

Rising waters began to inundate the southern region late Monday after days of heavy downpours, leaving eight dead in Songkhla province, two in Pattani and one each in Satun and Surat Thani provinces.

Thousands of soldiers have been dispatched to the area to help people stranded in their homes after flash floods swept through Hat Yai, a city of more than 150,000 people.

A further three people were also killed in northern areas, where the flooding began on October 10, bringing the nationwide toll to 122, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said.

So far more than six million people have been affected, with homes submerged and farmland or cattle destroyed, in what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described as "a huge natural calamity".

Waters have receded in most parts of Hat Yai, a city popular with tourists from Singapore and Malaysia.

But more than 100 foreign visitors remained stranded in their hotels early Thursday, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

The government has sent two naval ships to the southern region to provide medical and logistical support for the relief operation.

On Wednesday marine police boats rescued about 100 Thai and foreign tourists from Koh Tao, a popular holiday island in Surat Thani, after they were stranded for half a day, local tourist official Panu Woramit said.

Nearby Koh Samui airport was operating again normally after a closure due to the bad weather, he added.

Fifty of Thailand's 76 provinces have been affected by the floods but the high waters have subsided in 19 of these, officials said. Bangkok has been on standby but has so far avoided major flooding.

Aerial view shows the flooded southern Thai city of Hat Yai on November 2, 2010. Thailand battled on November 2 to rescue thousands of people trapped in their homes after flash floods -- several metres deep in places -- swept through a southern city, cutting power and communications. Heavy flooding has already killed more than 100 people around the country since October 10 and with the disaster spreading there were fears of more casualties. Rising waters began to inundate Hat Yai, a city of more than 150,000 in Songkhla province, late on November 2 after days of heavy downpours, affecting tens of thousands of people, possibly including foreign tourists.





Malaysia evacuates thousands as floods hit



- Malaysian authorities have shut schools and evacuated more than 12,000 people as floodwaters rise in two northern states hit by torrential rain, official media said Tuesday. In Perlis state, which borders Thailand, 11 schools were shut and 3,000 evacuees were taking shelter in relief centres, state news agency Bernama said. Several roads were blocked and public buildings including a hospital were flooded, it said, as local residents scrambled to shift their belongings to dry land. In neighbouring Kedah state, some 9,264 residents were shifted out of affected areas, and housed in 39 relief centres.



Bernama cited local emergency authorities as saying that several rivers in Kedah had risen above the danger level. In Thailand heavy flooding has already left more than 100 people dead, mostly in the central and eastern areas. On Tuesday flash floods up to several metres deep swept through the city of Hat Yai in the south, stranding about 100,000 residents, officials said. Thai authorities estimate that almost six million people have been affected, with homes submerged and farmland or cattle destroyed. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described the floods as "a huge natural calamity".

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