Kim and Jeremy in Thailand

September 20, 2005

Floods!

Okay, so remember that big rainstorm I was talking about yesterday? It rained hard again last night, and we came to school this morning through a lot of water, a VERY soggy commute. It's a good thing we have a massive beast of a truck, because the nurse lives right by us and she has water in her backseat floorboards sloshing around because it was so deep to drive through.

We arrived at school and the basement was pretty flooded. The choir room had about 5-6" of standing water, and the little dip in the floor outside our office was full. All we needed were some little fishies! Thankfully, the computer servers stayed dry, but there was a lot of damage since quite a few classrooms had standing water, so some books and things were lost. I put up a few pictures on our gallery, although it's hard to get an idea of the extent of it from the pictures.

School was called off early today (10:30) on account of all the water. Several of the mubaans here are flooding, and there are rumors that since the Ping river (which goes through downtown) is flooding again, they will release more water from the dam into the canal which goes behind our mubaan. Parts of our mubaan were already flooded, so this could definitely affect us. Once we finish preparing the school for possible floods, the staff will scurry off to our own places to move all valuables to higher and drier locations.

And just yesterday I was saying that I sometimes forget I'm not in America during school!

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  1. Your site is very very cool !! I love it :) Respect !

    Comment by Billy — June 12, 2006 @ 16:40 — Reply

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