[TriLUG] Bye bye Tiger

[Michael Kimsal via TriLUG]

Yes, I understated it - I didn't remember the specifics, but knew it was
bad flooding.  That said, for most of us, the biggest impact on our lives
was higher drive prices for a year or two, which... bothers me still that
such tragedy can happen around the globe but not have any impact on me at
all.

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Michael Kimsal via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> IIRC, around 3-4 years ago, there was some big jump in drive prices across
>> the board due to some bad weather in SE Asia.
>>
>
> Some "bad weather?"  That's a HUGE understatement!  From wikipedia:
>
> Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon> season in Thailand
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand>. Beginning at the end of July
> triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Nock-ten_(2011)>, flooding
> soon spread through the provinces of northern, northeastern, and central
> Thailand along the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins. In October
> floodwaters reached the mouth of the Chao Phraya and inundated parts of the
> capital city of Bangkok <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok>. Flooding
> persisted in some areas until mid-January 2012, and resulted in a total of
> 815 deaths (with 3 missing) and 13.6 million people affected. Sixty-five of
> Thailand's 77 provinces
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Thailand> were declared flood
> disaster zones, and over 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi) of farmland
> was damaged.[1]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods#cite_note-EOC_report_17_Jan-1> The
> disaster has been described as "the worst flooding yet in terms of the
> amount of water and people affected."
>



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