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Phuket must prepare in time wild, landslides, floods: Expert

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PHUKET: Of Phuket Director, Department of prevention of disasters and mitigation also criticized construction and waste for a large part of the flood damage of spent 24 hours – and said that Phuket needs to be better prepared for wild times.


“People give enough thought to this kind of event,” said San Janthawong the DDPM.

“Cooperation is needed to ensure of garbage block drains and each local Council must ensure that construction sites are strictly controlled”.


Phuket tonight was cleaning after the intense that briefly suspended flights to Phuket International Airport, flooded Patong literally depth of waste in places, destroys houses in a landslide and cut power to much of the West Coast.


Families in at least a village of Chalong, with their houses still filled with water, were bedding in the tents, tonight.


Most tragic of all, the family of a British tourist in 20 years has been mourning his death by electrocution in a puddle “live” to Soi Bangla on 06. A friend was lucky to escape with less severe shock.


With more rain forecast and the possibility of flooding more, owner of pharmacy of Patong Bongkotmas Ruangsri echoed the opinion of many merchants when she said: “Patong is simply not prepared for this kind of thing.


“Other flood-prone centres have the ability to get sick and output and to rescue people in potential danger. I have seen any vehicles or vessels. »


Khun Bongkotmas was actively shifting of goods in his shop “90 pharmacy” on the floor where they will remain dry, and where she intended to spend tonight in the case of a second severe flood combat.


“I was four years and never given something like it”, she said.


Khun San of the DDPM said that it is clear today that each Board of Phuket needed an excavator which could erase the channels in an emergency.


“One of the main difficulties is that channels are often limited by the greedy land owners who seek to optimize the space on their land”, he said.


“The result is that when there is exceptional rainfall, water cannot escape.”


Landslides were another fear, especially with forecasts for more rain this week, he said.


He said “Each local Council must ensure that construction sites are consistent with the rules”. “There must be serious action on this issue, or there will be disastrous landslides a day”.


At least two houses and a vehicle were severely damaged today in a landslide in central Kathu.


“Owners of land where building took place always denied responsibility. “The law is full of faults”, he said.


“Anyone who leaves Phuket for six months, then returns note the rapidity of change”.


Around the region of Phuket, other provinces were also severely affected by the wild weather. The road between Phang Nga and Surat Thani was cut, the centre holiday in Khao Lak reported severe flooding and more rain was forecast for the whole of the Andaman coast Sunday.


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Phuket Villages still as threat of sliding supports flood control

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PHUKET: Residents in three villages in Phuket are fighting to clear their homes flood waters this afternoon that the Department of disaster prevention and mitigation has intensified its warning that continuing torrential rain could trigger landslides and slides.

In the worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami, a total of 1590, Phuket families in 37 villages were forced from their homes by floods between Thursday and Saturday.

Thousands of tourists of plu – in were also hit, with constant storms and since long blackouts in Surin 15 yesterday to 02 stations this morning not to encourage satisfied and relaxing feeling that induce Phuket beach vacations usually.

As with the 2004 tsunami, many people not in the areas devastated on Phuket went about their business as to the usual step touched except by the rain.

Others were not so fortunate, with flooding houses, cutting off roads and damaging of Patong, Kamala, Chalong, Thepkasattri, Srisunthorn and parts of the city of Phuket.

Today the Director of Phuket, Department of prevention disasters and mitigation, San Janthawong, is concerned only with rain now forecasts through until Monday, the danger of landslides and of slides increases.

All local councils “are in a State of emergency alert”, he said today. “I am particularly concerned about construction hillside sites.”

Bad weather continues to be forecast for Phuket and 20 other provinces, Ranong, Phang Nga, Krabi, Satun and Trang. Small boats are advised not to the sea because of strong winds and high waves are predicted.

DDPM statistics show that, with 37 villages affected and three still dealing with flooding, emergency workers evacuate 500 families in Patong, 350 chalong, Rassada 250 and 300, Thepkasattri.

Only a landslide has been saved for the moment.

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The Phuket hotel staff “Not good enough,” said Governor

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PHUKET: A consultant Korean seeking contract to prove his honesty today complain light rail of Phuket coincide with its top Phuket hotel service – directly to Augkaradacha of sorting for the Governor of Phuket.

After a field name of the business of Keangnam farm engineering, Kang Shin Yeong said the Governor than Phuket needed to improve its service standards.

Mr. Yeong, who speaks English, said that many employees at his hotel to Patong is not good English skills. Worse still, he said: “staff try to flee so that they do not have to speak to tourists.”

Mr. Yeong said that he was at the hotel for four days.

He said Patong beach was beautiful, the hotel had good facilities and was pleasant and people outside of the hotel are friendly.

“But within the hotel, the staff is not effective,”, he said. “You must inform how to provide efficient service”.

Sort of Governor, perhaps confused, said training programs had just begun, without developing.

The theme of the binding of light rail from the Phuket International Airport to Phuket Town, the Governor said that the Keangnam company was an engineering firm deemed that ranked among the best in Korea.

Mr. Yeong said that the company had carried out projects in United States, Saudi Arabia and the South Africa – although had suspended all work on one in Libya.

Sort of Governor said that he had a total of express interest of 12 companies in the project and probably selected candidates – a Chinese company and three of the Korea – would make public presentations in two months.

He added that a simple solution was not possible, and that the tender would involve a mixture of overflights and underground passages.

He said there is now the budget for overflights of vehicle baht 800 million Central Festival Phuket and intersections Tesco-Lotus, with work to start first on the Festival Central junction.

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