I know the water is coming but it won't be fast and we have so much time left to be prepared.
17/10
2 am : it's still dry. I'd sleep tight and leave for school in the morning
4.30 am : Woken up by mom before time. She was so shocked and I ran to a window to see the outside. The village's walls collapsed down and water kept coming in non-stop. Water is a little below my knees. Dad and mom quickly drove cars out to keep them somewhere safer. It was so chaotic in the house, everyone was moving around to keep the house safe. Apparently, all the sandbags we have were already useless.
5.30am : The water height was already above my knees. it's filling up the lake behind my house. Having disabled grands and a small brother made us more worried about how we could evacuate them out before it's too late. Dad was so nervous and scared. There was no way we could save everything in here. Grandpa walked around trying to be helpful but he got dad so pissed.
7am : A truck from dad's office came to rescue us. It was supposed to be for moving furniture out but the water was already at my hip and it was a tough work that we had to give up
8am: . Grandpa and my little brother were then evacuated out. It was just like a movie scene, dead cars on the road and people moving out trying to survive. It was even more chaotic outside. The road which usually took us 5 minutes to reach to the main road now took us an hour. Other houses along the way out were all in the same condition. People were not leaving their homes because worrying about their belongings.
12am : Water had reached my chest height. We failed to block it from coming into the house. Dad moved paralyzed grandma out by a boat to hospital.
4pm : Water didn't fail to stop increasing. It was tiring and we lost hope to keep the place safe. Had a hard time deciding to abandon home. Rescue team got us out from the house. Still couldn't believe this's real. Not seeing this with my own eyes, I wouldn't know it could be this bad.
8pm : All safe. Very quiet and tense environment. Only hearing sound from TV, listening to updates.
18/10
6am : woken up by dad's panic and everyone became panic.
10am : In school with thoughts about home. Tried not to worry since there's nothing better we could do now.
2pm : never felt this excited to get back home again.
4pm : Water rose, emerging more area and more chaotic surrounding. Felt like the world was ending. People crying over their losses.
5pm : Very unusual view of my own house. Dad didn't dare to come. Tried to grab as much belongings as I could. Grandpa kept calling to find his belongings under the water. Hopeless and helpless.
10pm : Back to the city without dad who was looking after our the-next-property-to-go. Like living another life from a few hours ago. Which is the reality? Scared to know what's going to happen the next morning
19/10
6am : First morning of the week without disturbed mind.
10am : Felt nervous without updating news
1pm : thought it could be a little relaxing afternoon but got a call from dad to stock food for 15 days!
9pm : I know dad is sad and hopeless. It's already a crisis period. I am told to be standby all the time. There's no good sign for the situation to get better.
20/10
5am : Dad and mom rushed out. Our company and cars are already under water.
8pm : Spent the day unpacking things from home and taking care of grandpa and little brother who need to be assisted almost all the time. Exhausted but to think about it, we are still luckier than many others.
21/10
9am : Can't imagine about future to come. Water is still rising and spreading. Got upset by what's going on. Can't wait for it to end.
12am : Victim-going-to-be is more mentally disturbed than the victims. Starting to become a consultant for people who are about to be flooded!
2pm : Grandpa couldn't endure living in this limited space anymore. He moved to Kanchanaburi. Left with little brother to be taken care of now.
22/10
My turn today to stay overnight with grandma at our last office in Rama 2, another danger zone!
23/10
Dad and mom went home again. Water still keeps increasing and became bad water. Boat will soon not be able to get into the house.
Situation is getting worse and worse. More people are suffering. Not enough helping hands. People in the city really don't know what is really happening outside there.
24/10
Quite settled after a week of trying to get things back into places. Trying to live normally but have to admit that it's not normal and water might be coming to greet me again here in Bangkok.
5 comments:
Noc, thank you for having put your time into it - this is really admirable and i hope it also helps you dealing with this situation.
Once again, and i say this for all of you, it is very important to produce out of what is happening to us. This is one way we can mentally survive.
Now, have you started thinking about what you could produce?
It would be also interesting to see the escape. The journey from your house to a safer place.
The schizophrenia in the apparent disconnection between the 2 places. The way people still live their daily life in down-town Bangkok in parallel to what is happening a few kilometers away.
Reactions and psychologies of people could be your subject also.
What are your intentions now?
What would you like to do (for real in this case)?
Are you also interested in the physical aspects of what is happening, water fully occupying the inverted volume of what we build?
At this very moment, what I wish to do the most is too raise awareness of people in the city who are not yet affected to know how bad this could be and also to know how much people are suffering out there. I watched news this morning about the situation at Thammasart Uni. Rangsit Campus where more than 3000 victims are squeezing in a gym without electricity and they are suffocating while pleasing to be brought into Bangkok to live in somewhere safer and more comfortable because the campus itself is also flooded already.
This just gives me so much thoughts about the ongoing disaster and hope to do something to erase the worry-free thought of safe people in town.
Why would you do that ?
To raise people's awareness about the problem even though it's not effecting them (yet).
Do you get my idea? Or you think it's not gonna work well?
I think you should propose to do something
for the people affected (that is taking water into account - have you seen the project teatro del mundo in Venice adn traveling through eastern Europe?)
or about the distance some people have, depending on their location
(which might then be a little controversial...)
but given the first project you did, i would really push this imaginary world to meet (even if violently) with the super-material one you are living in now.
What use would it be to raise the awareness of people not touched?
If it is about creating the imaginary conditions of this flood... then maybe yes/
or it could also be the creation of another kind of link (than news on TV or paper) between the different situations in Bkk...
What do you think?
It is time to start a form of production (using all the documentation you have and pursuing this documentation).
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