Get ready for another big storm (maybe)

[jacko]

 

Good one.

 

When I was a teen in a swimming club and we were doing back-stroke........There'd be a line of us sent off in 5 sec intervals.

If there was a girl following me.....I'd slow down with my legs apart.........Hoping her hand would brush my genitals. That was as close as I got to sex.

When I was at secondary schools the sexes were kept apart to prevent giggling while breast stroke was being discussed.

[atlas2]

We went into hysterics if an arm, (bra) or head, (tete) was mentioned in French.........Best days of our lives.

 

Anyway the 5 day forecast looks like rain.........

 

Did you know that the smell of rain is actinomycetes.......a type of bacteria?

[jacko]

 

Did you know that the smell of rain is actinomycetes.......a type of bacteria?

I do now and will likely regret it for the rest of my life... or I forget it.

[forcebwithu]

 

Good one.

 

When I was a teen in a swimming club and we were doing back-stroke........There'd be a line of us sent off in 5 sec intervals.

If there was a girl following me.....I'd slow down with my legs apart.........Hoping her hand would brush my genitals. That was as close as I got to sex.

 

I competed in butterfly. Good prep for my life in Pattaya.

[aussiechic]

Ahh past lives I was a champion breast stroker in the day, it still comes in handy.

[MM]

Ahh past lives I was a champion breast stroker in the day, it still comes in handy.

I continue my passion for breast stroking even now.

[jacko]

Rumblerumble as I type..............

[Harvey]

5:20 p.m., Saturday October 17

 

Dang, sure looks like it's raining hard to the north. I wonder if the rain storm is headed our way.

 

The humidity it thick enough to cut with a knife.

[nkped]

Good rain in Jomtien at the moment.

[jacko]

5:20 p.m., Saturday October 17

 

Dang, sure looks like it's raining hard to the north. I wonder if the rain storm is headed our way.

 

The humidity it thick enough to cut with a knife.

I am to the North of town and we did get a very windy and heavy rain spell last night around 8pm.

Didn't last long.

[tallguy]

This sinkhole first appeared on the path behind the beach at the bottom of Pratumnak Soi 5 after a storm about 4-5 months ago.

 

 

It has been getting steadily worse. You can still get past it on foot, Just waiting to see a motorbike at the bottom of the hole one day.

 

 

 

[jacko]

This picture was taken near my place, where, a month ago the bridge was completely under water, and twice the bridge has been repaired, as it was damaged by fast flowing water. I am sure the guy who lives here on the corner does not rest well on rainy nights. He must dread a rumble and shift of the bed.

 

[Bullfrog]

This picture was taken near my place, where, a month ago the bridge was completely under water, and twice the bridge has been repaired, as it was damaged by fast flowing water. I am sure the guy who lives here on the corner does not rest well on rainy nights. He must dread a rumble and shift of the bed.

 

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That looks perilous!!

[jacko]

 

That looks perilous!!

Another day I saw a few guys messing about with concrete...it was a half arsed attempt, you might be able to see the new concrete. Probably beyond the means of the owner but it looks like it need boarding up and a truck load of concrete pouring under there.

 

Edited October 22, 2015 by jacko

[Harvey]

I didn't want to create an entirely new thread just for one random thought. So I searched "storm" and will try and put it here.

 

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Wow -- that was some thunderstorm last night. I'm in the Baraquda and the thunder shook the place. (In an odd-bit of timing, my girl and I were just starting to boom-boom as the weather did too).

 

I'm up early having dutifully ushered my girl out the door and am searching for a live stream of the USA/Panama WC qualifying match which begins soon (yeah, we Americans are an embarrassment to soccer, but you have to be loyal). As I type these words (6:30 a.m.), I can still hear distant rumbles of thunder.

 

I hope that the storm brought rain to help fill the reservoir a bit. But, DANG, I haven't heard thunder as loud as last night's since...perhaps never.

[atlas2]

Yeah........there was one 'clap' last night that really got my attention.

[nkped]

At the south end of Tappraya in Jomtien, the thunder wasn't quite that loud, but it was extended. Water on the floor near one of the sliding glass doors so pretty windy.

[Harvey]

Whoa -- another huge crack of thunder. It's raining buckets right now (at the Baraquda -- near Royal Garden Plaza mall.)

Edited October 7, 2017 by Harvey

[jacko]

Yes, I woke at 3am to it and the thunder is still cracking now....

The rain hasn't been particularly heavy (yet) where I am North of town.

[cbrib]

I'm up in the soi kor pai area. The thunder and lightening last night was pretty impressive.

[Evil Penevil]

I was on my way home yesterday morning at 2:26 a.m. when the downpour started. I was only five minutes from my condo and probably would have made it if I hadn't stopped to buy a kebab. I took shelter under the awning of a closed MP to see if it would be over quickly.

/

After 20 minutes, it was still coming down in buckets and the soi on which I live was already beginning to flood, so I bought a "Hello Kitty" umbrella for 100 baht from a passing hawker. My camera case is waterproof so that wasn't a worry. I got soaked to the skin, but at least I could walk the last few hundred meters while the center of the street was still visible.

At 6.50 a.m. I was awoken by the loudest thunder I've ever heard. One hell of a storm, but by no means the worst.

Evil

[Harvey]

I've been trapped here at the Royal Garden Plaza top floor, on the covered balcony at Starbucks, nursing a coffee and watching it pour down buckets. Hasn't stopped for the last 25 minutes.

 

I guess it comes with visiting during the rainy season. But this is some rain maker right here. (5 p.m. Pattaya time)