Koh Samui

Mr Floatplane · #1 26-11-2005, 18:04

It has stopped raining at last! Never have I seen rain like it before – not even when Hurricane Katrina whistled by me! The cloud cover has been so thick midday is like twilight.
The Chaweng Lake (which my unit overlooks) has doubled it’s size and swallowed up much in its wake. The water rose over 3 feet in an hour a couple of days ago when I was out, so I could not get home on my motorbike. I ended up sleeping in the shack of half a dozen bar girls who kindly took pity on me. With my motorbike under water, I left them the key and waded home…
700 people stuck at the Samui Airport….More rain forecast…

barflyrex · #2 27-11-2005, 08:18

Hey Mr Floatplane

More rain forecast..........

I think you better get down to that bar were girls kindly took pity on you in case theres more flooding

My lucks been so bad latley, that if it was raining virgins.....Id be washed down the gutter with the poofters.

Rex

Mr Floatplane · #3 27-11-2005, 14:10

Cheer up. It is not luck. It is location!

blixten · #4 03-12-2005, 03:23

Hi Mr Floatplane
I will arriwed to Koh Samuai on December 11 th ..Do you have any update how it is right now???...Still rain or the weahter is better??
Peter

grmono · #5 03-12-2005, 04:08

Don't look to good these days http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_...s.php?id=65489
Good luck! Hopeful it will be better in a week or so...

Talbotman · #6 04-12-2005, 01:30

i was in samui (lamai beach) from november 13-19 and i had fantastic weather which was a relief as i had really bad weather previous to that during my stay in patong, on november 19 the weather broke and the mother of all storms hit us, was one of the worst experiences of my life taking off from samui airport on my bangkok flight but amazingly 10 minutes into the flight the weather cleared up and bangkok was hot and sunny. my friend has just come back from los yesterday and he says the guy who was sitting next to him on the flight home told him that the rain had not stopped since november 19 and that the island was suffering extremely bad flooding.

Mr Floatplane · #7 05-12-2005, 14:16

Hi Blixten,

Rignt now it is still raining, looking at the radar there are more heavy showers on the way. I would pack up and go to Phuket if I were here on a holiday. Perhaps that will be an option for you, if things have not improved when you arrive?

From the Thai Meteorological Department:
http://www.tmd.go.th/index_eng.php

Dec 5-8:
During this period, people in areas of southern Thailand from Chumphon southward should aware of flood conditions.

Dec Monthly Forcast:
High pressure areas from China will cover upper Thailand throughout most of the month...For southern Thailand (east coast ),scattered thundershowers with isolated heavy falls and very heavy falls may occur in some day...The active low pressure cell in the lower Gulf of Thailand or the lower South China Sea may be active to the tropical cyclones and will move through southern Thailand, causing abundant rainfall in those areas and storm surge over the coastal areas of southern Thailand.