ALTHOUGH severe flooding has eased in seven of nine Trang districts, with only one district spared inundation, floodwaters are still roof-high at houses along Trang river despite the rain having stopped for four days now with villagers saying there was complacency that a diversion canal would work well as it has done over the past four to five years, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Nov. 30).
Still experiencing significant flooding are villages numbers 3, 4, and 5 in Bang Rak subdistrict, Mueang Trang district. Particularly in village number 4 around 50 houses are still flooded to the roof with the approximately 150 residents unable to move out most of their belongings because the floodwaters gushed in very quickly this time.
A resident of this village rowed a boat to inspect the condition of his house and saw that while floodwaters had dropped less than a metre it was still two metres high within his and neighbouring houses. Realising they could not move out their belongings the villagers resorted to locking their doors to keep them afloat within and fled with their children and grandchildren.
One homeowner said the floodwaters level in her house are still over two metres high and that her house has not been flooded since 2020 and even when it was previously inundated it was not severe because Bang Rak subdistrict has a large diversion canal which speeds up drainage. She admitted that she was careless in only moving a few belongings to higher ground but her house has now been flooded to the roof damaging many valuable items.
Of the nine Trang districts that got flooded, there are 64 subdistricts, 11 municipalities, 61 communities, 440 villages, with 16,344 households totalling hundreds of thousands of people being affected and three have died.
Two districts, Mueang and Katang, are still inundated with floodwaters being one- to two-metres deep. Specifically, many villages in Bang Rak and Khuan Pring subdistricts in Mueang district, Khok Yang, Khuan Thani, Yan Sue, and Bang Mak subdistricts in Kantang district remain under water as they are adjacent to Trang river.
It is expected that if there is no rainfall or a rising tide, the situation will return to normal in one to two weeks’ time.
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Houses still flooded to the roof in Trang. Photos – Naewna
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