We're Floating Away

UPDATE FROM TRANG:

It's been raining crazily down here in Trang, far south Thailand.

My town is a river. I can't get to the stadium or the Tesco supermarket. To
go down there and see the town divided is surreal. Tsunami 2.

Rubber plantations are lakes. The roads are under water. Yesterday it
stopped raining for a few good hours. I watched the Thais wash their
motorbikes in the new lakes.

Chickens, dogs, cats and cattle are looking for high ground. This is serious
stuff. It teaches me self preservation and self sufficiency.

It feels like its been raining for the last 4 weeks non stop. Except for one
or two days. And then last night and today, the rain just keeps on coming.

Now I'm learning all the Thai words related to flooding. :-)

No problems where I live, as my home is up high. But, the more the rain
comes, the more the waters rise, and more and more people will be finding
alternative accommodation.

How can I help I wonder.

Gotta go.

"There are no hopeless situations;
there are only people who
have grown hopeless about them."

Clare Boothe Luce
1902-1987, American Diplomat and Writer

Martin