Category Archives: Nature

Worse Than A Bad Hand

November 14, 2011 – 7:15 am

The epic monsoon floods on 2011 are slowly receding from the record highwater marks throughout the country. Hundreds of Thai citizens have perished from the inundation. Industry and agriculture have suffered from the disruption of the infrastructure. Inner Bangkok escaped the catastrophe as promised by the government, but the outskirts joined the Central Thailand underwater. […]

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The Flood Of The Century

November 9, 2011 – 5:00 am

The monsoon rains struck South East Asia with ferocity this year. Rivers overflowed their banks and villages were inundated by the swollen streams. Thais are accustomed to floods, but this monsoon season took the country by surprise. In August I drove hub-deep through Sukhothai on my way to the ancient city. My daughter thought it […]

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The River Is Wide

October 29, 2011 – 1:40 pm

In August I took my daughter Angie to the highest point in Thailand. Doi Inthaton was wraithed by fog and I lent her my jacket, even though I had bought her a bright pink poncho in Chiang Mai. She liked anything to do with me. Angie is my daughter. She and I climbed to the […]

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The Fury of the Unnature

August 31, 2011 – 9:08 am

I had expected my flight from Tokyo to JFK to be delayed by the storm. I landed ahead of schedule. The A train was running on time. The sky was beautiful. Walking down my street from the subway station, I saw little sign of the storm’s passing. I thought New York had been lucky, for […]

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Last Stop Joplin

May 31, 2011 – 7:43 pm

This Sunday President Obama returned to the USA after a successful European drinking binge with Irish drunks and gin-lovers at Buckingham Palace. His first stop was not McSorley’s in the East Village, but the devastated Midwest city of Joplin. 2/3s of the Missouri town has erased by mega-tornadoes. The President viewed the widespread wreckage and […]

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