Photos From Your Dry Correspondent - Still!

More flood related photos.

Looking out towards the swimming pool from our apartment.

 This room is usually full of furniture.  It is all now lining the staircase.

 Facing the car park.  We now have to climb out of our building!

 Knowing me I'll have fallen off this before it is removed!

Most of House's residents have fled to the beach - cowards!  This is how one person has taken care of their car.  I intend to stick a big bow on it for a laugh.

We went off to the river again to take a look.  There was certainly a lot more water around than when we had visited before, but as you can see from the next few pics, we didn't need swimsuits.  Looking down from the Skytrain.

 The walkway under the Skytrain.

Last week when we visited, the water hadn't entered the ferry area where we usually stand.  The ferry has now been suspended until about Tuesday I think.  The Hilton, Peninsular etc are still running their ferrys.  It looks rather frightening when they arrive at the pier.  The water is flowing so fast, when they turn from up river, they swing around in the water, and you feel sure they will just bash into something.

These are the giant sluice gates as you come down the Skytrain steps.  You can now fish OUTSIDE of the sluice area.

 Flood water draining off under the station.

Peninsular Pier.  You can see the drinks coolers have been raised up above the river level.

Along Charoen Krung - so fairly near the river, and the defences here are more serious, in terms of height.

The man in this car pulled up and the guard loaded up some of this building's sandbags onto a trolly and then into the man's car.  A bit of 'private enterprise' do you think?

Sandbags inside the wall, outside and the wall itself, which has been heightened.  They are obviously not taking any chances.

This has been the only decorated wall that I have seen!  I stopped to speak to a shopkeeper at one of the other jewellery shops (this street is wall to wall jewellery shops).  He said they will break the wall down after a month, when the floods are supposed to be over.  I have a bet running with Alan that most of the shops will keep these walls, though they may knock out an entryway, which can be quickly filled if needs be.  Lets see who is right.

As far as you can see - defensive walls.

Just look how high this wall is.  As we walked along it was clear that some walls had been heightened today.

 Another pier entryway under water,

 By that beautiful old building on the river, near the Mandarin Oriental.

The riverside fire station.

 Old building opposite the Sheraton Hotel next to River City.

The same building's garden area.

 River City's defences!  I assume this is an old decorative fireman's waterpump - but there again..!

 Looking from River City, at water being pumped into the river.

These piers have gone into reverse action.   Normally you walk down to these floating platforms, where as now you have to walk up to them.

The guard had a tape measure and was keeping a log of the river height each hour.

So, nothing like as dramatic as where Sue lives.  And where we live it is - as predicted by yours truly, dry, dry, dry!