Thai Floods

Have just returned from Thailand and the floods where the situations looks pretty serious, the waters of the Mae Nam Chao Phraya are running at a fair rate of knots. Ferry masters hard pressed to bring their vessels alongside the wharfs. It seems as though someone has left the tap running into a bath, with the overflow raging downstream , hitting the bridge piers with such force as to send jets of water high into the air. Some 75% of the country now underwater, Buddha statues sitting in the middle of lakes, some with water up to their navels looking serenely out across the watery landscape. There does not seem much anyone can do, but pray for the rain to stop. I must record my condolence to the families of those who have lost loved ones [last count some 290 people have died]. the combination of the monsoon, high tides and no doubt blocked drainage canals have all contributed to this tragedy.