Unseen Bangkok. Images and content © Chris
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Showing posts with label Flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flooding. Show all posts

Friday, July 1, 2011

The Rainy Season

Yes! In the warmer areas of the world - right now I'm referring specifically to Thailand - there are rainy seasons and drier seasons. The May-August months tend to be warm and quite moist. Indeed, if you take a look at the local weather [click here for the link; discouraging, isn't it?], you'll find that tomorrow it will rain. Sunday it will rain. Monday it will rain. Tues-... well, you get the picture, I'm sure! This is the rainy season. I carry an umbrella with me for that time of day when the rain appears. Last night, for instance, it rained. But when I woke up this morning and went exploring, I was astonished.

Cars traversing a partially-submerged street [left]. Banana (?) trees overhanging a flooding creek [right]

At night, many of the small streets had some water in it, so I grabbed a ride from a taxi! The taxi driver was clearly not happy about the conditions of the road. I hadn't realized it, but the road we were traveling on became partially submerged at one point. When we went over a bump in the road, I felt the bottom of the car hit the water below - hard. To compensate, we left the driver with a nice-sized tip.