By Celsias
Posted on Oct. 13, 2011. Listed in:
Thailand's floodwaters have already killed 269 people and some 3.4 million acres of farmland are under water.
Bangkok is braced for another storm, as Thailand's worst floods in five decades threaten to overwhelm the barriers protecting Bangkok
Deputy Prime-Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong has urged the 12 million residents of Bangkok to be prepared “We have to admit that we are in crisis,” Kittiratt told reporters in Bangkok today. “Everybody must be prepared and can’t be complacent. You should prepare what you will do and where you will be.”
In the last two months, floodwaters have swept across 60 of Thailand’s 77 provinces destroying more than 10 percent of the nation’s rice farms.
The high tides in the capital are due on October 16th and 17th so the country is on high alert.
“The government will do its best to protect the city, but we can only build the barrier,” said Kittiratt, who last week described the deluge as the worst in at least 50 years. “If the water level exceeds the barrier, there is a chance the inner part of Bangkok will be flooded.”
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