People on Nanai Rd, Patong, woke to find a brown torrent flowing along the street, and Pang Muang Sai Gor Rd, always the first to be hit by floods in Patong, was also inundated, with the ground floor of Kathu Police Station also flooded.
Heavy flooding was also reported on Chao Fa West Rd, next to the TOT complex, and in Kan Kaeha village in Baan Lipon, off Thepkrassatree Rd.
Pol Maj Pongpichan Chayanonpirai of Patong police reported that the floods have since receded and Nani Rd is now clear of water - though not of mud. The section of Pang Muang Sai Kor Rd from Patong Hospital to the rear of Jungceylon, however, is still flooded.
That section of the road is in any case impassable to traffic, apart from motorbikes, because of ongoing work to install large sewers.
Patong's flooding usually results from a combination of high tides and heavy rain. This morning the tide reached 3.1 metres at aroung 11am, and there will be tides of 3 metres or more every day until Monday next week (August 12).
Kathu District Chief Veera Kerdsirimongkol said that he had received no reports of landslides.
Video by Stine Sidelmann