Thai floods: Stress, anxiety as Bangkok residents wait for the worst

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 14:41 — Anonymous A surreal atmosphere hangs over
Bangkok, as residents continue to play the waiting game, trying to make sense
of the mixed messages broadcast hourly by officials monitoring the flood
situation. In most cases, when disaster strikes, a nation has little, if
any, warning. Bangkok would seem to have the opposite problem. For more than
two weeks, city residents have been told to prepare for the worst, as the
government fights to divert waters surging in from the flooded central plains
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