The flooding trauma has affected Thailand as a whole, and many schools, including ours, had to be closed. Many places in Thailand were affected by this flood, but personally, it didn’t affect me. This is partly because I live in central Bangkok. I live with my mom in Thailand, while my dad and sister live in Korea. My mom and I didn’t have to leave our home because we it didn’t flood in our area, but some of my friends had to move to other areas such as Pattaya to relocate. Very fortunately and thankfully, my family is fine. I feel bad for all the other people who were affected though; it must have been hard. I think right now, the flooding trauma has decreased a little bit, and so my area will not be flooded. I will be able to return to school on Monday, and look forward to seeing my friends and teachers. When I realized that the school had many continued extensions because of the flood, I knew I would have to check my email and edline account daily to keep track of homework, as well as important news. I managed to do this because my internet wasn’t cut off, and still am very thankful for this fact. Homework was updated every single day, and I tried my best to keep up with it so that the work wouldn’t pile up in a big mess.
There will be a lot of short and long term effects from this flood for Thailand. For example, it has been very hard to get clean drinking water, inexpensive foods; the prices to these items have increased. There were also a limited number of supplies. In addition, people will have to deal with their homes and neighborhoods. The water is dirty and contaminated, so it will be hard for people to recover from the damage. They will have to have a massive clean up as soon as the waters have gone. The long term effects that will occur from the flood will be very troublesome for the entire country. It will take a lot of time and money to recover from such a loss. The flood will have a long term effect on the agricultural industry. The crops have been destroyed, and must be replanted. The entire nation will have shortages of food due to the loss of crops. Prices for food will increase, and many staples that are grown in Thailand might have to be imported. Some of the water systems have been infiltrated and so water might not be as clean as before. The tourism industry will also be affected because nobody would want to come to Thailand and most people probably cancelled their vacation trips. Perhaps in the future, the tourism industry will bounce back to the way it was before the flood disaster.
In order to help out those in need, we could do several things. We could participate in community services. In certain areas, people have helped build sand bag walls in order to keep the water out. We could also help distribute water and food to those that need it. We could donate money to help buy emergency supplies for flood victims. Some schools have already been doing this, which is great because we can all help out. The money could also go towards rebuilding homes and buildings. Thailand could plan for a better water drainage system for the future in case this flooding tragedy happens again. My moral compass says that we should try to find a better solution to taking out the water. Instead of moving the water to the outskirts of Bangkok, we should build better drainage passages to rivers or directly to the ocean. My moral compass also says that I should be very glad that I haven’t been affected in any way, and am able to stay safe at home. We can turn our thoughts into action by encouraging political leaders to draw plans to solve the problem, and to allocate money for that purpose.
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