Chiang Mai

Preparing for Floods #2 and #3
September, 2005

After Flood #1 and with the threat of further flooding we tried very hard to make our house flood proof. These photos show something of the preparation.



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The living room: we moved the TV and all the lighter furniture upstairs
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The living room: we cleared the bottom shelves of
books, etc

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The living room: we stacked the cushions on the dining room table. How bare it all looked and continues to look!
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The living room: another view of the TV cabinet and one of them bookcases ready for the next flood
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The kitchen: we cleared out low shelves
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The kitchen: we put the cupboards up on bricks and  cleared out the bottom shelves
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The ,kitchen: the frig too went upon bricks
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The storeroom: everything damageable was raised
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The storeroom: 5 new doors ready to replace those ruined in the first flood

The day the workmen came to install them we got word of the next flood, so we had  them hold off on installation... and sent them to get sandbags instead!

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The storeroom: new steel shelving for storage above water level, we hoped
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Final view of storeroom
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The prayer room: everything is stacked up on bricks until all threat of further flooding is over
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The prayer room flood ready
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The prayer room: I just had a new cabinet made and now another flood coming!

Note the mould around the walls. This is a consequence of the first flood.


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The store room and prayer room sandbagged ready for the floods.
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Another view of the sandbagging
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Our back door sandbagged
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The front door sandbagged
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The side door sand bagged



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