(Updated Tuesday may 14)
May 6, 2024 in the early evening an unexpected hurricane hit mainly our village and close surroundings and caused a lot of damage. Over 30 houses lost their roofs and The Royal Thai Army, the next day, even came to help the elderly to repair.
I made a small picture impression of 'The day after'. A blog in Dutch but easy to understand the damage only watching the pictures. If you are interested to see click here.
Also our constructions and garden were damaged. We mentioned in our additional blog of May 7.
May 10 we ordered 240 new glazed ceramic rooftiles and hope they will arrive soon. It will take a maximum of three months but the company will try to hurry up.
A lot of repairs still need to be done but, after five days of several hours effort (more is not possible because of the combination of high temperature and high humidity), we managed to fix the damaged roof of the house we are building. Yesterday afternoon at 5 PM this job was done so we intended to go on with our regular building process today.
Again totally unexpected yesterday evening heavy weather that brought our constructions under 'fire' again. At 9 PM a heavy lightning hit between the village and our construction site. Everything in one time dark because of power break again. For your information, we deal the last couple of weeks with two till three power breaks a week. So yesterday evening we started up our generator again. Happy we once bought and installed that electricity machine.
Five minutes later, wind that brought also rain out of North-Western direction. And within another 10 minutes it turned out to become a very heavy thunderstorm.
We already heard the sound of breaking glass and this morning we found the sad results. Most of the last five days repair work destroyed. Parts of the top-roof we are installing blown away and dropped 3.5 meters deeper on the middle roof. And other new damage, glass blocks, trees, branches, the back roof of the TED's, and so on.
We need a bit time to make up our mind about how to move on because this is only the start of the rainy season and this area never before was hit so hard by these terrible storms.
New thunderstorms are on their way. It is raining already. We hope not too heavy.
6 o'clock Monday afternoon May 13:
Repaired the roof behind the TEDs.
Replaced 58 broken roof tiles from the last storm. Makes the total to date 182 tiles. Buckets full of broken pieces for sure we cannot use for the roof anymore.
Various piles of broken rooftiles that we hope to be able to use a little for the corners.
Fortunately, the temperature is a little bit more pleasant.
Tuesday another day we hope...
Frans & Phatsamon
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