Flooded Again?

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We thought for the last couple of weeks that we might be flooded again. It still depends on how much rain falls – how hard it rains and how fast – for the rest of October.
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The Chao Phraya River is not abnormally high, and, unlike last year, the dams upriver have kept their reservoirs low to allow room for September’s hard rains. So it all depends on how much hard sudden rain we get.
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We did have one scary night last week when the drainage ditch out back of our place filled up completely during a long intense downpour, and our outdoor courtyard kitchen area was filled with water. The water came right to our front step, and another five inches or so higher would have come into our first floor. But it receded several hours after the rain stopped.
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Rains have not been as hard as predicted for the last few days, although there is still typhoon activity in the South China Sea as well as strong monsoons from the Indian Ocean. The north of Thailand has been the hardest hit with floods this last month, and a lot of that water is still upstream from us. So we are still watchful.
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-Zenwind.
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