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Heavy rain brings more floods to Phuket: VIDEO

Heavy rain brings more floods to Phuket: VIDEO

PHUKET: Heavy rain at lunchtime today (August 25) caused flooding in a variety of places across the island, with the worst, predictably, being in Patong.


By Darawan Naknakhon

Monday 25 August 2014 03:44 PM


 

There, parts of Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd, Sai Nam Yen Rd and Phang Muang Sai Kor Rd were flooded to 50cm or more.

Soi Phrabaramee 3 in Patong. Video courtesy of Decha Sithidej

Drone video of Patong by Sompong Sakultup

Elsewhere, there was heavy flooding along Phra Phuket Kaew Rd between Tesco-Lotus bypass and Kathu, and on parts of Thepkrasattri Rd.

Pumps installed temporarily in the underpass at Central Festival, which has been in use for a week for northbound traffic were reported to be keeping up with the water, but a bus whose driver drove it off the edge of the road just north of the Tesco intersection did nothing to help. That obstacle has in since been cleared away.

In contrast, in Kata a reader reported that there had been no rain at all, and another reported that Kamala was dry and sunny.