My family has been on a slow and steady flood watch here in Bangkok for the past two weeks. You can only hear the airline pilot declare “brace brace” so many times before you poke your head up and look out the window. You start letting your guard down a bit and just living like a regular family until the next big piece of information – usually misinformation – comes down the pike and the pilot starts screaming “brace brace” again.
We’ve kind of resigned ourselves to the fact that eventually our soi is going to have a half-metre of water or so. How long it stays and what it will do to the downtown is anybody’s guess however.
