News Forum - Severe flooding hits Phuket prompting widespread road closures

[Thaiger]

Substantial flooding due to heavy rain last night and early this morning swamped the holiday resort of Phuket, prompting police to shut down several of its main roads. Streets across the town became untraversable, leading to police-imposed road closures. The water levels in Bang Yai Canal, the canal that transits through the city providing a … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

Phuket is fast becoming as a flood city from a tourists City. Unless something is done drastically to reduce the amount of trash is going into the draingage system. Nothing can be done to imporove the condition. 

[Completely_confused]

They are constantly repairing or upgrading the infrastructure (roads, drainage, electrical, etc) here on Phuket. It seems to be neverending.

Most of this work is well done and solves the problems (kudos!)

Growing pains...