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Disaster Zone or Not?

ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
edited December 2011 in Buddhism Today
Take a look at this link, a province in northern thailand has been declared a disaster zone due to the cold weather hahaha....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/518253-6-chiang-mai-districts-declared-disaster-zones/

Comments

  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited December 2011
    How cold is it there? Its pretty cold here but we have furnaces and so forth.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    edited December 2011
    If you look on the link there are comments below the article. I think in the main town it is 20 degrees C, up in the hills probably about 5-10C haha, which is why I find it astonishing that it has been declared a disaster when they took over two months to declare the floods a disaster.
  • SileSile Veteran
    Oh my :)

    My childhood friend from HK was afraid to come visit Wisconsin due to fears of "the cold" (this was in August). Her second greatest fear was storms. I assured her we'd be safe from both.

    I convinced her to go on a tour of the Dells aboard an old Army Duck--and in short order we were stranded in the middle of the Wisconsin River during a raging thunderstorm, complete with hail.

    But I imagine Thailand is like HK - since it's almost never cold, no one has heaters, so even at 40F it's a bit rough. But...disaster? That is odd.

  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    Yes, that is what I thought. 6 areas of that province declared 'disaster zones' when it took the government 2 months to say to the public the bangkok floods were a disaster and a crisis. Thailand is a bit further south, I would imagine it is slightly hotter on average. Nobody wears socks ever really, I would not imagine wearing anything more than a Tshirt all year round here, well where I am, central thailand.
  • ginabginab Veteran
    It may be odd, but I really don't see how it's funny.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    edited December 2011
    I find it funny, not exactly in a haha laugh at the people funny, just strange funny. I laugh a lot, but that is more towards the government because it is a shambles.
  • SileSile Veteran
    By way of contrast, the regional weather services in Minnesota/Wisconsin have decided to implement a warning system that lets people know when it will be 35 below zero (-37 Celsius) or colder.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Sile, THAT is cold! I'm in michigan luckily the lake blocks some of that. Though we get dumped with a lot of 'lake effect' snow.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    We are talking about +10 degrees C here in thailand, disaster?
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