Thailand: Floods - Aug 2005

More than 100,000 families were affected by severe flooding which commenced in the middle of August in Northern Thailand's Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Lamphun, Mae Hong Son, Nakhon Phanom, Nan, Phayao and Tak provinces. Some 2,100 homes and thousands of hectares of crop land were destroyed due to the overwhelming force of runoffs from the Ping River. Torrential rains, which earlier in August hammered Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Sorn, inundated more than 4 500 villagers' homes in the three provinces alone, and left 11 people dead. (IFRC, 31 Aug 2005)