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Old Oct 12, 2011 | 9:46 am
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redondo-beach
 
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it seems they plan on doing AMAZING work in a couple days to keep out the water ,

20+KM sandbag wall near the airport which is built on reclaimed swamp land anyway ,

and maybe the most "interesting" is 100 big boats at the mouth of the river that are going to push the water back into the sea at high tide !

Some of the sandbag dikes have already broken upstream and no one knows how they will hold around Bangkok ,

But they seem to be ready to let the other side of the river basin flood to save the city,

I think the problem in the tourist areas will be if there are heavy thunderstorms and there is no where for the water to go because the klongs / canels are filled up so high that water cannot drain into them,

I hope all goes well

RB
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