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Post by Soutpeel on Jul 31, 2017 13:23:40 GMT 7
Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance BANGKOK (Reuters) - Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 226,000 people. A 9.15 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004 and triggered a massive tsunami that caused large scaled destruction and loss of life throughout the Indian Ocean. Popular tourist destination Thailand was among the worst affected, along with Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. Many of the 5,395 people killed in Thailand were foreign tourists holidaying along the shores of its idyllic islands and beaches. Thailand's warning system includes warning towers, a network of detection buoys in the sea and public announcement systems. "Around 70 to 80 percent, or around 2,000 pieces, need to be taken care of. We set up this system since 2006 so it needs to be maintained," Kobchai Boonyaorana, deputy director-general of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, told Reuters, referring to various equipment. www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-tsunami-idUSKBN1AG0HM?il=0 |
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 31, 2017 14:32:04 GMT 7
The batteries in the tsunami warning buoys need to be replaced every year and every year there is a budget squabble abut who will pay for the effort to go out and replace it. As a result the system is down more than it is up - the system is solely under Thai government control.
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Post by Mosha on Aug 1, 2017 6:49:51 GMT 7
Frightening when you learn that the fault in the Andaman has a history of double taps, and that it only relieved half it's pressure last time. The trigger is still primed.
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Post by chiangmai on Aug 1, 2017 7:25:10 GMT 7
What's equally as frightening is that the budget for the batteries is readily available, that's not the problem. It seems the real problem is finding the 10 million baht needed to sail out and replace them, apparently they need a big ship for the five day trip. The buoys are located up to 600 nautical miles South of Phuket, eight more sit off the SW coast of Indonesia but presumably Indonesia takes care of those. www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Tsunami-warning-system-finally-ready-after-8-years-30196748.htmlI would have thought that since Thailand has a navy, one of their ships could have done the job but maybe that's too simplistic, or maybe that's the cost to have the navy do the job, dunno. But the whole business may be moot since some people report that much of the system has been lost or is broken anyway so there's not to much incentive to go put batteries in something that is either broken or doesn't exist in the first place. www.smh.com.au/world/thailand-tsunami-warning-system-buoys-lost-or-broken-experts-20141226-12dxol.htmlActually, the whole piece is really really ferkin sad to be honest. |
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Post by Mosha on Aug 1, 2017 10:41:19 GMT 7
I've been to a park south of Ranong. Quite frankly looking how twisty and the escape route length. Folks living near the beach haven't got a snowball in hell's chance.
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Post by smokie36 on Aug 1, 2017 16:16:11 GMT 7
I've been to a park south of Ranong. Quite frankly looking how twisty and the escape route length. Folks living near the beach haven't got a snowball in hell's chance. Took a bus south to Phuket after doing a visa run to the Andaman a few months after the tsunami and the devastation was awful to witness. It seems memories are short. |
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Post by me on Aug 1, 2017 17:07:52 GMT 7
I've been to a park south of Ranong. Quite frankly looking how twisty and the escape route length. Folks living near the beach haven't got a snowball in hell's chance. Took a bus south to Phuket after doing a visa run to the Andaman a few months after the tsunami and the devastation was awful to witness. It seems memories are short. Not among the families who lost people. |
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Post by smokie36 on Aug 1, 2017 17:13:06 GMT 7
Took a bus south to Phuket after doing a visa run to the Andaman a few months after the tsunami and the devastation was awful to witness. It seems memories are short. Not among the families who lost people. Indeed not....maybe their voice needs to be louder on this issue. |
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Post by Mosha on Aug 1, 2017 18:37:19 GMT 7
I've been to a park south of Ranong. Quite frankly looking how twisty and the escape route length. Folks living near the beach haven't got a snowball in hell's chance. Took a bus south to Phuket after doing a visa run to the Andaman a few months after the tsunami and the devastation was awful to witness. It seems memories are short. I was told last year, the police launch is still the wrong side of Hwy 4 in Khao Lake. A friend was working in Phuket town, she rang her mum to tell her she was coming home to Ranong to tell her something. She left Phuket on the 1st bus. The tsunami struck, and the family were frantic trying to make contact. She turned up in the village and had no idea of what she'd missed. Came to tell mum she was pregnant. |
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Post by chiangmai on Aug 1, 2017 18:56:21 GMT 7
We planned to go to Krabi for the holidays but work commitments meant I left it very late to book flights, my travel agent had an office in Ploenchit Towers and was a gem at getting last minute reservations. She got us booked into a hotel in Ao nang but couldn't get us flights, at the last moment we switched our hols to Koh Samui instead. We were in the market at Bo Phut when we saw the Tsunami unfold on a stall holders TV, we thought it was all a Thai soap opera at first. Our agent called us later that day and was in tears, you so lucky she kept saying...lovely lady.
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Post by Mosha on Aug 1, 2017 18:56:48 GMT 7
Forgot to add my mate , a Kiwi, ran a guest house near Ranong bus station. He's still in bed recovering fro Christmas night. His wife elbows him in the ribs. Trying to make him notice the ceiling fans dancing. I never felt anything. 19 died in the province, chased the water out to pick up the fish.
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Post by buhi on Aug 1, 2017 19:42:12 GMT 7
Three kids in my class, seven year olds were there.
First day of the new term i was dreading.
One, young Toby was not present.
Two were still in shock.
Celine's father described what happened.
Daughter was on the highest floor of the hotel and saved. He had gone for an early morning stroll.
Surfed back into the hotel lobby as he light heartedly put it.
Toby was not in fact a victim.
Was in shock, came back to school a week later.
They were lucky.
At Patana School as Fletch probably knows, there is a memorial garden for the families lost that day.
It is a place suitable for meditation.
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Post by Soutpeel on Aug 2, 2017 8:52:29 GMT 7
Forgot to add my mate , a Kiwi, ran a guest house near Ranong bus station. He's still in bed recovering fro Christmas night. His wife elbows him in the ribs. Trying to make him notice the ceiling fans dancing. I never felt anything. 19 died in the province, chased the water out to pick up the fish. I was offshore in the GOT that day, the radios were lit up with drilling rigs reporting "vibrations" in their derricks, i was on one of the LQs and we thought a boat has hit the jacket, a brief but quite strong vibration in the structure, we thought nothing of it then about 20 minutes later the news reports started coming in ....... about a day later, a cardboard box was put in the galley which just had "Tsumani" written on it...and the guys started putting money in the box, it seems all the guys on all the other facilites had done the same, this wasnt a company collecting it was the guys...if the story is true, within a few days over USD 15k had been collected in the Gulf and was donated to the relief efforts, this was on top of the amounts donated by the oil and gas companies |
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Post by chiangmai on Aug 2, 2017 10:14:30 GMT 7
I've read some reports describing the corruption and theft associated with the Tsunami relief work and it makes very uncomfortable reading, the monument to the victims in Khao Lak was one of the worst which couldn't be finished as planned without new funds. It was that same area that foreign relief volunteers were threatened with arrest for working without a work permit. It's because of those examples that I refuse to donate money indirectly to any worthwhile cause, I'll happily put the money in the hand of the end recipient but not in any other way.
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Post by Mosha on Aug 2, 2017 11:44:30 GMT 7
I'm o-ve, and I heard they needed that blood type. It's known as the Universal blood type as it can be used on most if not all blood groups. The down side is we can only receive o neg. I went down and donated, but it took time to explain I wanted to donate, and not receive  . |
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