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To all my friends.
Pai as we now it is gone.
Town is now deserted because of the amount of mud and the sudden lack of guesthouses and bars still standing.
What happened???
We don't know for sure, but we have had the worst flooding in 30 years... Rumours about broken dams.
Mudslides from the mountain came down by the wednesdaymarket, destroying everything in its way. The house that John and Dan shared with Jae was hit and filled with mud. They are all ok, but has lost everything.
The wednesdaymarket is trashed, houses missing and broken road.
Unfortunatley the mud then swept over Lucky Blaskows. I have lost my bar.
At the same time as this happened, our own river took on desastrous proportions and washed away everything on the other side of the river; Drifters, Goodview, Familyhut and our beloved Riverview, flooding Mellow Yellow, Goodlife and everything on their street.
Ps Bungalows lost 22 out of 30 huts and every record about guests was washed away in the stream.
My house survived only because of the hill it is built on. Some of my neighbours wewe not as fortunate.
Opened my window saturday morning and saw a river stretching from hill to hill. The ones of you who have been to my house know that that's not right. Where did my beautiful ricepaddys go???
Started digging out places last sunday. 20 people digging out three feet of mud from Shisha, and we have been at it ever since.
Feel so tired.
Also feel proud though. Have organised a large team that goes from one place to the next.
Yesterday I found a small familyhouse in Nam Ho. The familys in the villages do not get any help from the military, so we started digging.
Managed to go back today with my entire crew, and what would have been an impossible job for them was done in five hours.
The newspaper only wrights what the goverment allows them to wright. according to them only 13 deaths and a few cases of missing people has been reported in the hole north(Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, Soppong, Pai and every village inbetween), but there is no way that that can be true. No way. We are talking hundreds...
Sorry if this email seems a bit scatty, but I feel so tired. Info can be found on Google/Pai Thailand, or from me on number +6671924680
Please call us, we are all ok, but we need some support!
Lots of love
Elin, John and Dan
Pai as we now it is gone.
Town is now deserted because of the amount of mud and the sudden lack of guesthouses and bars still standing.
What happened???
We don't know for sure, but we have had the worst flooding in 30 years... Rumours about broken dams.
Mudslides from the mountain came down by the wednesdaymarket, destroying everything in its way. The house that John and Dan shared with Jae was hit and filled with mud. They are all ok, but has lost everything.
The wednesdaymarket is trashed, houses missing and broken road.
Unfortunatley the mud then swept over Lucky Blaskows. I have lost my bar.
At the same time as this happened, our own river took on desastrous proportions and washed away everything on the other side of the river; Drifters, Goodview, Familyhut and our beloved Riverview, flooding Mellow Yellow, Goodlife and everything on their street.
Ps Bungalows lost 22 out of 30 huts and every record about guests was washed away in the stream.
My house survived only because of the hill it is built on. Some of my neighbours wewe not as fortunate.
Opened my window saturday morning and saw a river stretching from hill to hill. The ones of you who have been to my house know that that's not right. Where did my beautiful ricepaddys go???
Started digging out places last sunday. 20 people digging out three feet of mud from Shisha, and we have been at it ever since.
Feel so tired.
Also feel proud though. Have organised a large team that goes from one place to the next.
Yesterday I found a small familyhouse in Nam Ho. The familys in the villages do not get any help from the military, so we started digging.
Managed to go back today with my entire crew, and what would have been an impossible job for them was done in five hours.
The newspaper only wrights what the goverment allows them to wright. according to them only 13 deaths and a few cases of missing people has been reported in the hole north(Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, Soppong, Pai and every village inbetween), but there is no way that that can be true. No way. We are talking hundreds...
Sorry if this email seems a bit scatty, but I feel so tired. Info can be found on Google/Pai Thailand, or from me on number +6671924680
Please call us, we are all ok, but we need some support!
Lots of love
Elin, John and Dan
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