Just over a week ago I was celebrating the completion of our new road.
The extended four year construction period was mainly due to ineptitude, but it did include many months of digging, followed by the installation of a new drainage system, presumably to ensure that rainfall would travel through a proper drainage system and not flood the road, or undermine it.
Yesterday was the first test. It rained. A lot. Not hundred year storm sort of rain; but a typical tropical storm which went on for several hours. She who must be obeyed did not fancy her chances getting to and from work in her little car, so I took her in the truck; and the new road was coping just fine with the deluge.
But things were not looking so good this morning.
Large volumes of water must have been flowing under the road to cause this; and it is possible that a larger area will collapse around it at any time. But it is Songkran, so nobody is going to do anything until sometime next week.
A little further up the hill was another new disaster area, maybe the place where the water was gaining entrance to the under-road erosion adventure.
It’s not looking promising for the rainy season. Within a few months the whole thing will be torn up and re-worked; which will put a smile on the face of whoever it is who profits from these pathetic attempts at construction.
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2010-04-19| Jamie saysWe got a big sinkhole last August on the road just outside Patong beach due to water flowing under the road - photo here: http://phuket-weather.blogspot.com/2009/08/rain-sniffles-more-rain.html - luckily nobody drove into it.