44 homes available for Nong Khai people
According to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, authorities are making all-out efforts to stop flooding in the northern provinces of Nong Khai, Nakhon Phanom, and Bung Kan.
He claimed that flood in the northern provinces along the Mekong River would probably be much less intense than the harm seen in the north if the water could be effectively drained into the valley.
Mr. Anutin, who is in charge of preventing and reducing natural disasters, claimed that jungle discharge and landslides were in part to blame for the destruction that occurred in northern areas.
He added that the northeast’s water drainage system is anticipated to be more effective and thus lessen harm.
Numerous river communities in several northern provinces were affected by flood because of the waters flowing from the north and the water being released from upstream dams.
In Nong Khai, the water levels rose to 13.8 yards yesterday morning, marking the highest water levels in 16 years.
Solid waves on Saturday nights caused some breaches of the storm barrier at Phra That Lanong, which contributed to the flooding at the municipal office on Prachak Silpakhom Road yesterday.
In Nong Khai, Sri Chiang Mai Hospital announced yesterday that it would only take crisis patients because of the flood. Nong Khai and Laos ‘ Vientiane bus services are no longer operating.
According to regional government, a total of 44 tents were available for flood victims.
As the water level in the province’s Mekong River is expected to rise immediately, suppliers at the tourist attraction Phaya Si Sattanakharat, located in the seaside region of Muang area, have been warned to leave Nakhon Phanom.
The water level was measured at 11.5m tuesday, about 50cm quiet of the alert level. Although the metropolitan area was unaffected by flood, heavy rain could result in flooding if the waters may not effectively drain into the Mekong River.
However, if there was no more rain, the water level in Bung Kan stabilized at 13.4 m yesterday morning, and the condition was anticipated to stabilize soon.
If no liquid was released from a bridge in Laos, the water level in Loei’s Pak Chom region even stabilized and was likely to drop.
However, flooding in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai city was easing but it left some places devastated.
The clean-up activity was made hard by thick sludge from the flood.
Some of the subjects left their homes after returning, only to discover that the flood ‘ mud had almost reached the roofs. Their things were smeared with or buried beneath clay.
153 settlements and 52 communities in nine districts were impacted by flooding and landslides that occurred in Chiang Rai on September 9 and 9 from September 9 to September 2 and left two people injured.