Day 213

Thailand has been experiencing some of the worst flooding it's had in decades. This article says "Floodwaters have swept across 60 of Thailand’s 77 provinces over the past two months, swamping factories operated by Honda Motor Co. and Canon Inc. and destroying more than 10 percent of the nation’s rice farms." Until now, none of Bangkok has really been affected. Everyone's been talking the past couple days about the flooding reaching our part of Bangkok at the end of this week, or next week. The estimates I've heard for our neighborhood are 50-70 centimeters (approximately 20-28 inches) of floodwater. They might even cancel school this Friday or some of next week.

Jacob and I went with our friend Jordan (in the picture), another teacher at DSIL, to the big Tesco nearby to get a few things, and this was the bottled water aisle! The ramen aisle looked similar. Don't worry though, we will be fine and we bought cereal, PB&J supplies and we're ready! We also live on the second floor so that's good. We don't live very close to the river, I don't think our neighborhood will be affected much. It's everywhere else being affected that disrupts delivery of things: water and power, shipments to supermarkets, etc. I'll keep you posted about what's going on as long as we have internet and power! If we lose it though, don't worry, there won't be much flooding where we are and we have plenty of food to keep us nourished.