October 13, 2011 Thailand Flooding

Many areas of Thailand (two-thirds total) are currently being flooded severely with some places being flooded with over 10 feet of water, destroying many villages and drowning a crazy 108 temples.  Rescue teams rescued a lot of people using navy boats and motorized canoes while the rest of the people affected floated on whatever they could find, pedal boats, inner tubes and even some foam.  This is just another disaster that has damaged parts of Asia most notably the epic monsoon rains and typhoons.  Thailand has been one of the hardest hit killing nearly 300 people recently and their flooding is the worst it's been in the last 50 years.  The Asian continent has experienced billions of dollars of damage and many factories have been forced to shut down and their rice fields have been completely wrecked affected their economy.  Bangkok, one of the areas not yet affected, has its residents buying emergency supplies fearing that they will soon be next.
  This is an image from Wednesday of one of the most sacred temples in Thailand.