In this image, vegetation is displayed in red, and flooded areas are black and dark blue. Brighter blue shows sediment-laden water, and gray areas are houses, buildings and roads. The image covers an area of 35.2 by 66.3 miles (56.7 by 106.9 kilometers) and is located at 14.5 degrees north latitude, 100.5 degrees east longitude.
Tens of thousands of Bangkok residents are fleeing the city after the worst flooding Thailand has seen in half a century reached the capital. The city’s governor ordered residents of two swamped northern districts to evacuate for safer city shelters, and waist-high water turned Bangkok’s roads into rivers and washed over homes and businesses. Some lucky city residents escaped on military trucks and buses, while others had to make do on paddle boats, plastic tubs, inner tubes and rubber rafts. Several men, the AP reports, “floated down a flooded road in a makeshift boat made of empty oil barrels tied to a rectangular plank.”
Since the flooding began in July, it has claimed the lives of 373 people and racked up billions of dollars in damage. Flood water has engulfed a third of the country inched closer to downtown areas and foreign governments urged their citizens to avoid unessential travel to the threatened city.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/thailand-flooding-continues-bangkok-resident-brace-for-worsening-conditions/2011/10/26/gIQAO4plMM_story.html
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