Above: Photo from the 1942 flood
Bangkok’s Old-Timers Recall Even Worse Deluges – WSJ, October 31, 2011
…This isn’t the latest update from Bangkok’s current flood scare—it’s from 1983, one of the many times that floodwaters have ravaged the Thai capital. Floods were so bad that year that 400 schools closed from October to early December and some areas didn’t dry out until after the New Year…