Chiang Mai city flood eases, surge moving downstream

North Carolina’s regular coach services are now back.

A worker directs the removal of flood debris from the Ping River at Naowarat Bridge in Muang district of Chiang Mai on Monday morning, helping improve the river flow. (Photo: Chiang Mai Municipality Office Facebook account)
On Monday night, a worker helps strengthen the river flowing by directing the removal of disaster particles from the Ping River at Naowarat Bridge in the Muang city of Chiang Mai. ( Photo: Chiang Mai Municipality Office Facebook account )

On Monday, the storm level was dropping in Chiang Mai city as a storm surge poured down the Ping River into southern components of the state and neighboring Lamphun.

At 10am on Monday, the Naowarat Bridge monitoring station reported that the Ping was 3.45 meters full, according to the website of Chiang Mai Municipality. The valley had remained steady at that level for six hours, which was significantly below the required 4.20m mark, according to the statement.

Job gangs continued to assist in removing the particles left behind and assisting residents by helping to drain the water from still-flooded places in the town. &nbsp,

Kuakul Manasamphansakul, chairman of the Chiang Mai water office, said interest had shifted to the position in flooded river Saraphi, a southern city bordering Lamphun, which was still receiving water released from Chiang Mai. It was also raining it. &nbsp,

Mr. Kuakul expressed concern that the estimates of more rain would merely serve to worsen the situation in Chiang Mai and Lamphun.

The Kuang River in Muang city overflowed on Monday morning, according to the Public Relations Office in Lamphun. Before merging into the Ping, the Kuang passes through the Muang city.

The north and northeast regions were expected to experience significantly lower temperatures, stormy winds, and large rain, with a reasonable high pressure zone stretching from China to the upper region of Thailand until Friday.

According to the Office of the National Water Resources, Chiang Mai is one of the country’s 17 counties that is inundated. Due to the agency’s overflowing rivers and heavy rain, Chiang Mai was put on the agency’s flood call list until Wednesday.

All northern coach services have been back to normal since Saturday, according to the State Railway of Thailand. It was still monitoring areas that were in danger of flooding once more.