Flood situation in Southern Thailand still critical! / Solo River overflow water began entering the area of East Java!

Indonesia SINKING:

/ Sukoharjo district estimates of material losses due to flooding in the District Mojolaban and Grogol near Rp1 billion. /

/ East Java Governor Soekarwo said currently the area in a flood alert. For areas in the Solo river, such as Klaten and Sukoharjo, has experienced flooding due to overflowing water is the longest river in Java. "The regions in East Java who skipped Solo River, from Ngawi, Madison, Bojonegoro, Tuban, Lamongan, Gresik, Surabaya up, will also be hit by flooding," said State House Grahadi Soekarwo in Surabaya, on Wednesday afternoon, January 4, 2012 . /

/ In addition to knocking down five houses, flooding also resulted in hundreds of homes were flooded with water reaching a height of 75 cm to 1.5 meters. /

/ Solo River overflow water began entering the area of East Java!!! VIDEO

Philippines SINKING:

/ Two children were killed while another one was injured when an old five-foot-tall seawall in Barangay Ayala collapsed from battering by strong waves [... ] /

Thailand SINKING:

/ Flood situation in Southern Thailand still critical /

/ Heavy rain and flash flooding yesterday continued to wreak havoc in the southern region, especially in Muang municipality of Nakhon Si Thammarat. In Nakhon Si Thammarat, run-off from Luang and Nun mountains, triggered by steady rain over the past four days, caused unprecedented massive flooding, putting several main roads and residential communities under deep water. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said flash flooding and run-off has hit nine out of the 14 southern provinces with almost 60 districts inundated. /

/ The flood situation in nine southern provinces remains critical, with roads closed and train services halted due to high-level inundation and many villages engulfed in mudslides. Citing a weather forecast, provincial governor Phinij Charoenphanich said more heavy rain was likely for another day or two while urging residents living near the base of hills to brace for landslides and trawlers not to go offshore because of high seas. /

/ Constant rain in the lower southern provinces since Saturday triggered flooding and flash floods in the southern provinces, including Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Phatthalung, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani and Chumphon. /

Philippines:

2 killed by falling seawall in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines—Two children were killed while another one was injured when an old five-foot-tall seawall in Barangay Ayala collapsed from battering by strong waves churned up a low pressure area that was threatening to bring heavy rainfall to many parts of Mindanao.

The children were playing near the seawall, made of boulders, pebbles and sand, on Tuesday evening when it collapsed on them, Chief Inspector Hado Edding of the Ayala police station said Wednesday.

Edding identified the fatalities as Reymart Pantasan, 8, and Giancarlo Aquino, 6. The injured victim, who was in critical condition in a hospital here, was identified as John Rey Patongo, 5.

“They were playing near the quarry area at the Olaso property separated by an old seawall. The strong wind and waves may have caused the seawall to crumble down on the site where the kids were playing,” he said.

Edding said the police suspected also that quarrying had weakened the wall’s foundation. So when the strong wind and waves battered it, it readily gave way, he said.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Mindanao, residents of General Santos City, Davao del Sur and Sanrangani were warned of approaching bad weather as a result of the low pressure.

Officials ordered residents of coastal areas as well as people living near riverbanks to prepare for possible evacuation as a low pressure area which developed off the city a few days ago east southeast of General Santos City was threatening to bring heavy rainfall.

The advisory was issued even as a weather forecaster said the weather disturbance, which was monitored 400 kilometers east southeast of General Santos early Wednesday, had no chances of developing into a storm.

Buddy Javier of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the weather disturbance was expected to dissipate in the next 24 hours.

However, Javier said the low pressure area could still dump more rain than usual and could threaten many Mindanao areas with floods.

“Widespread rains over the eastern section of the Visayas and the whole of Mindanao may trigger flashfloods and landslides,” Pagasa said in an advisory.

Jerome Barranco, deputy director of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Central Mindanao, said the warning against sailing, especially for fishermen and those using small water vessels, remained in place.

Pagasa admitted that the low pressure area could generate moderate to strong winds, and coastal waters could be rough as long as it was active.

Ephraim Beliran, General Santos City disaster action officer, said a rescue team was on standby status.

Most of Mindanao was cloudy on Wednesday with rains reported in some areas, including parts of Sarangani and Davao del Sur.

In Davao del Sur, town mayors of coastal areas said they had placed their respective disaster response offices on alert due to the low pressure area.

Mayor Joel Ray Lopez of Sta. Cruz town, which suffered from floods in recent months, said residents in coastal areas and those along river banks had been told to evacuate as soon as they observe signs of danger.

Mayor Benjamin Bautista of Malita town said rescue workers were also asked to be on alert for possible emergencies, including landslides in hinterland villages.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/122505/2-killed-by-falling-seawall-in-...

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Thailand:

Flash floods hit the South – again

Floods in the South tend to come and go quickly, but unfortunately for the victims, they have been increasing in frequency and intensity.

Heavy rain and flash flooding yesterday continued to wreak havoc in the southern region, especially in Muang municipality of Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Other parts of the South were hit as well, prompting hospital evacuations, halting airline services and forcing train passengers to continue their journeys by bus. But despite some provinces struggling with rising floodwater, levels were receding in the deep South.

In Nakhon Si Thammarat, run-off from Luang and Nun mountains, triggered by steady rain over the past four days, caused unprecedented massive flooding, putting several main roads and residential communities under deep water.

The floodwater in some communities, such as Bo Sap and Ban Tok, ran as high as two metres, forcing locals to resort to using boats to get around.

Authorities were mobilised to assist flood victims and evacuate those who wanted to move to safety.

Bad weather forced the provincial airport authority to suspend all flights, stranding several hundred passengers.

Rail passengers travelling north were advised to board trains at Thung Song station because tracks between Nakhon Si Thammarat station to Thung Song station were submerged.

Those travelling south were asked to disembark at Thung Song station and take buses provided by the rail agency to their destinations.

The floods battered six districts, three of which – Nop Phi Tham, Tha Sala and Sichon – have been declared disaster areas. In Tha Sala district, flash flooding breached an earth dyke and hit Tha Sala Hospital. The entire ground floor was inundated, forcing the hospital to suspend all medical services for outpatients except emergency cases.

Twenty patients were moved to Maharaj Hospital, 45 to higher floors and 35 others sent home.

The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said flash flooding and run-off has hit nine out of the 14 southern provinces with almost 60 districts inundated.

However, the floods subsided in several provinces, providing respite for residents and businesses.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-from-news/273646/flash...

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South reels under floods

The flood situation in nine southern provinces remains critical, with roads closed and train services halted due to high-level inundation and many villages engulfed in mudslides.

Another 84 villages, all in Ranong, are at risk of mudslides, according to the latest warning released yesterday. Twenty-one of them are located in high-risk areas in Muang, Kapoe, La-un, Suk Samran and Kra Buri districts.

The entire Lang Suan district in Chumphon has been isolated after a flash flood surrounded it last night, submerging all roads connecting it with the outside world. Many thousands of residents have been complaining about shortages of food and drinking water. A large portion of neighbouring Phato district is facing a similar situation, after abrupt forest floods cut it off from other areas.

A large number of homes in low-lying areas around a market have been flooded, with residents moving up to the second floor. Local radio announcements reported many phone calls asking for help and urgent supplies of food.

Route 4 and Route 41 sections in Lang Suan district have been submerged, prompting police to divert traffic to shortcuts and impose reversible lanes, creating heavy traffic congestion, as a huge number of holidaymakers return to Bangkok as the four-day New Year holiday break ends today.

Citing a weather forecast, provincial governor Phinij Charoenphanich said more heavy rain was likely for another day or two while urging residents living near the base of hills to brace for landslides and trawlers not to go offshore because of high seas.

In Nakhon Si Thammarat, a long crack on a mountain in Ron Phibun has caused panic to local residents with fears of falling rocks while all schools have closed until next Monday due to heavy flooding. An Air Asia flight braved a thunderstorm to land at a local airport with a load of frightened passengers. Nok Air and Orient Thai airways have called on prospective passengers to monitor weather reports and flight schedules on a constant basis.

A situation update from Nop Phitam district has not been available as power poles were felled by strong currents and most areas in the district have poor mobile phone signals. The district has been regarded as "completely isolated" and has seen many incidents of mudslides, said district chief Preecha Khumwong.

Ten local and long-distance trains running from and to Bangkok have halted service, said railway chief official Salaidej Saengphayak. Passengers are being transported to destinations on chartered buses while they can refund tickets for suspended trains at full price, he added.

Shelters have been set up at schools for flood evacuees from many areas in Muang municipality, where an estimated several thousand homes are under floodwater. The district’s wholesale farm product market - the largest in the South - has also been submerged, resulting in damage to a large number of products, prompting vendors to sell at low prices.

Tha Sala hospital, which was heavily inundated in the extreme flooding of last April, has evacuated 50 patients to other hospitals while medical equipment and supplies are still sufficient but at the ready to be moved up in case floodwater levels rise, said hospital director Kitti Rattanasombat.

A nine-year-old girl drowned yesterday in Yala’s Muang district, where 51,189 people from 15,300 families had been affected and 1,645 others evacuated, and 4,640 rai of farmland and 40 fish farms submerged or damaged. There has not been official confirmation whether the girl’s death was the first in the current South floods.

Their Majesties the King and Queen have provided relief supplies and other assistance, through local authorities, to owners of seven homes in Narathiwat’s Rue Soh district which had been destroyed completely by forest flooding.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/South-reels-under-floods-3...

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One child drowns in southern flood

YALA, Jan 3 – A nine-year old girl reportedly drowned in Yala as heavy rainfall triggered flooding in nine southern provinces, according to Thailand’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department.

The child, identified as Sareeta Sa-u, drowned in Yala in a raging river. Homes, schools and government offices have been submerged, affecting over 50,000 people.

Constant rain in the lower southern provinces since Saturday triggered flooding and flash floods in the southern provinces, including Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Phatthalung, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani and Chumphon.

The disaster agency is working with agencies concerned to provide flat-bottomed boats and other equipment to help evacuate flood victims.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra asked the defence minister to direct the Army to help flood victims in the South, said defence ministry spokesman Col Thanathip Saengsawang Tuesday.

The Fourth Army Region set up 21 flood relief centres in cooperation with other agencies to support flood relief operations.

Personnel, boats, equipment, and mobile medical units have been deployed to flood-stricken areas to evacuate people to temporary shelters and to distribute food, flood relief supplies to affected residents.

In Narathiwat, flood relief supplies, granted by Their Majesties the King and Queen, were distributed to flood victims in Narathiwat’s Ruso district after a flash flood had swept away seven houses. The situation returned to normal and medical teams treated and gave medicine to villagers.

Narathiwat Governor Apinun Suethanuwong on Tuesday visited 163 displaced persons at a temporary shelter in Sungai Kolok district and distributed flood relief supplies.

He then surveyed damage to seek a national government assistance budget and to observe the water level at the Sungai Kolok River at the Huasaphan community where the water level is 1.30 metres.

The governor said that emergency response workers are surveying damage for the data to back up an assistance budget request. It will be completed by next week.

This year’s rainfall is more than that of last year, he said, noting that the province dredged canals to prepare for possible flooding.

The local disaster prevention and mitigation office’s overall damage survey in Narathiwat reports that 63,649 persons have been affected and 98 roads damaged. Sungai Kolok is the hardest hit district

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Flood situation in Southern Thailand still critical

(THE NATION/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The flood situation in nine southern provinces in Thailand remains critical, with roads closed and train services halted due to high-level inundation and many villages engulfed in mudslides.

Another 84 villages, all in Ranong, are at risk of mudslides, according to the latest warnings released. Twenty-one of them are located in high-risk areas in Muang, Kapoe, La-un, Suk Samran and Kra Buri districts.

The entire Lang Suan district in Chumphon has been isolated after a flash flood surrounded it last night, submerging all roads connecting it with the outside world. Many thousands of residents have been complaining about shortages of food and drinking water. A large portion of neighbouring Phato district is facing a similar situation, after abrupt forest floods cut it off from other areas.

A large number of homes in low-lying areas around a market have been flooded, with residents moving up to the second floor. Local radio announcements reported many phone calls asking for help and urgent supplies of food.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/ANN/Story/STIStory_751719....

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Indonesia:

Flood losses estimated to Reach Rp 1 billion

Illustration (JIBI / Solopos / dock)
Sukoharjo - Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Sukoharjo district estimates of material losses due to flooding in the District Mojolaban and Grogol near Rp1 billion. From the data while the known losses primarily due to Infrastructure damage.

Chief Executive BPBD Sukoharjo district, Suprapto, stating the damage and loss data collection until Wednesday (04.01.2012), is still ongoing. Is expected that these activities can be completed as soon as possible to know exactly the loss in all areas affected by flooding in Sukoharjo district.

"Data Collection to this day still ongoing, but the majority are finished. The disadvantage is quite large because there is damage to infrastructure and agricultural land, close to Rp 1 billion, "he said. Suprapto said the data collection infrastructure damage and other losses in Mojolaban conducted in the Village Tegalmade, Gadingan, and Laban, Tuesday (03/01/2012). While the process of inventory losses in most of Sub Grogol, namely in the Village Kadokan, Parangjoro, and Pandeyan, follows on Wednesday.

According to him, from all the villages that have been recorded, the Village Kadokan, Grogol, suffered the worst damage to the value of the largest losses, followed by the Village and Gadingan Tegalmade Mojolaban region. In Kadokan, besides causing damage along the 1.5 kilometer road, flooding also damaged about 50 plots of rice plants.

"Of greatest value losses in Kadokan reached Rp242 million, followed Tegalmade and each Parangjoro's Rp180 million and Rp 147 million. While in Gadingan also quite a lot about USD 116 million and in Pandeyan Rp33 million and Laban achieve more, "he explained.

Executive Secretary BPBD, Sukito added, apart from Sub Mojolaban and Grogol, BPBD has made a circular to all districts to report the event of damage to infrastructure and crops owned by the farmers due to floods Sunday night until Monday morning. That, he stated, given a similar disaster also struck other areas in Sukoharjo although the impact and damage caused lighter.

"Circular has been delivered to all districts, but the report has not been entered. Therefore we can to make about the certainty of the existence of material loss due to flooding from the territories of other districts, "he said.

Raised Similarly, the results of data collection by BPBD damage will be presented as a report. The same data, said Suprapto, a recommendation on the unit involved in planning the budget for the program handling damage and other effects of misfortune experienced by residents.

http://www.solopos.com/2012/sukoharjo/kerugian-banjir-ditaksir-capa...

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Standby One East Java Floods

TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - East Java Governor Soekarwo said currently the area in a flood alert. For areas in the Solo river, such as Klaten and Sukoharjo, has experienced flooding due to overflowing water is the longest river in Java.

"The regions in East Java who skipped Solo River, from Ngawi, Madison, Bojonegoro, Tuban, Lamongan, Gresik, Surabaya up, will also be hit by flooding," said State House Grahadi Soekarwo in Surabaya, on Wednesday afternoon, January 4, 2012 .

Soekarwo also explained that he did based on the monitoring of water conditions along the Solo River flow at this time have reached a critical point. Surface water has begun to touch the lips dikes Solo. "It is not currently floods. Because the Solo river was full of water, we all need to pray to prevent flooding," he said.

Various efforts have been made, including dredge all the Solo basin as well as in several water gates. However Soekarwo acknowledged such efforts would be meaningless if the volume of water flowing from upstream Solo is very large. "We've been ordered to make good water management doors, must be closely monitored for 24 hours, it must be ensured when to open and when closed," said Soekarwo.

Floods in East Java is not just the Solo river burst. A number of other areas, such as Bondowoso, Situbondo and Pasuruan, also prone to flooding due to overflowing of the rivers in the area.

Problem of management of sluice gates in these areas, said Soekarwo, also need to be tightened. To cope with floods in Situbondo, sluice gates in the Hydroelectric Power Plant in the area could function as a diversion flood. "So also in Ngopak sluice gates, Pasuruan," he said.

Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) East Java, Sudarmawan, explaining the current has been established 29 areas prone to flooding and landslides. Among Jember, Lumajang, Pasuruan, Situbondo, Bondowoso, Malang, Bojonegoro, Kediri, Terri, Pacitan, Bojonegoro, Tuban, Lamongan, as well as some areas in Madura.

The new Sudarmawan week lead BPBD not known with certainty or flood prevention measures to be taken landslides institution. "The handover of office had just done tomorrow. After that will we see the real condition," he said.

http://www.tempo.co/read/news/2012/01/04/180375313/Jawa-Timur-Siaga...

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Start Solo overflow Enters East Java

Metrotvnews.com, Lamongan: Solo River overflow water began entering the area of East Java, on Wednesday (4 / 1). As a result, District Lamongan and Bojonegoro Regency, East Java, is now flooded.

In Lamongan District, overflowing rivers inundated the road in the village of Centini, District Laren. The water level reached more than 30 centimeters. The overflow is also beginning to disrupt the activities of citizens. While in Bojonegoro, flood water has decreased compared to the previous day.

However, the Regional Disaster Management Agency Bojonegoro I still set a standby for residents who live along the river. Decrease in water discharge due to the functioning of the existing door in the District foregoing. The door is capable of throwing water into the sea as much as 600 cubic meters per second.

Previously, overflowing rivers that have occurred since Tuesday (3 / 1) yesterday evening. Because the upstream continuous torrential rain in recent days .(****)