People leaving the Bangkok as the flood watering is heading towards it (Mian Shakeel Aslam)

Mian Shakeel Aslam---Bangkok residents fled the capital on Thursday after authorities called an emergency five-day holiday, and urged people in flood-prone areas throughout the city to go in order to avoid a massive avalanche.

High water seeps in and the central parts of Bangkok in the morning, with water in the Great Hall near the Chao Phraya River.
After days of preparation for the rush of water that many people left their homes on Wednesday night and Thursday morning and drove to safety in other areas, coastal towns, especially in the south of Hua Hin, Phuket and Pattaya.

"We have learned that all these places full of Thais who are moved from Bangkok," said the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), deputy Sansern Ngaorungsi.

He said domestic flights from the center of the country's main air, Suvarnabhumi - which continues to function normally - also "very, very full."

TV footage showed the bus terminal in the overcrowded capital, as people tried to flee, while the officials of the Central Station of Bangkok, was also filled and roads in the north and east of the city drowning.

"Congestion in Pattaya (southeast), Chonburi province began Wednesday night," said Major General Norraboon Nanna, commander of the Highway Patrol.

Public authorities in the capital were closed on Thursday after the government ordered a leave of five days for 21 provinces including Bangkok, so residents of the city to prepare for floods or exit.

A great second round of the North equivalent to 480,000 Olympic swimming pool is expected to reach the capital at the same time as the seasonal high water this weekend, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Just north of downtown were flooded away, including the city's second largest airport.

The land, flood relief operations in the center (Froc) said on Wednesday it was on the provision of additional protection outside the city of 12 million people, where there is food supply and increasingly difficult working conditions.
"I would put the people in Bangkok who are already affected or likely to be affected before the test, the evacuation of other places to ask," said Thongthong Chantarangsu, a spokesman for the Froc.

Posted By: Mian Shakeel Aslam

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/8852164/Bangkok-resid...