The slum communities alongside the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok are expecting high waters and flooding due to recent typhoons and heavy rains. Community organizers are scrambling to evacuate the elderly and the young before the tide rises too far. Access to food and knowing where to evacuate to when the floods hit are the main concerns of the local community. This flooding is the most severe disaster to hit the community in over 50 years.
It appears that this community is taking a lot of preventative measures in prevention aid and is preparing for the worst to come, which is one of the most important steps in risk assessment. Also, it seems that panic has struck many and many citizens are quite fearful, but it is better to be prepared than not to be. The floods are expected to cost the Thai economy in excess of $6 billion with over 600,000 jobs lost, especially among skilled workers in over a dozen major industrial states inundated by the floods.
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