Eventually Thai Red Cross trucks were sent out to the ones who were affected the most dramatically. the families received a family kit containing food clothes and the basic medical supplies. As word got out about the supplies more and more people gathered to receive help but many people had to be turned away because they simply didn't have enough supplies for everyone and they still had to travel to support more people in need from other flooding and hurricane disasters.
"Since the floods began in late June, Thai Red Cross has distributed more than 175,000 family kits almost with almost two million bottles of drinking water. Volunteers and staff have been active in 36 provinces, and have carried out some distributions in the flood affected northern suburbs of Bangkok."(ifrc.org)Bangkok is located on the tropic of cancer, therefore the weather there is usually warm with high precipitation. Flooding and monsoons are very common in that location but in recent years they have been increasing at a fairly rapid rate. Many factors play into the cause of excessive flooding on being global warming, the melting of the ice caps create more water, raising the water levels and creating these horrific floods. Hurricanes form only over warm water and a few degrees north or south of the equator normally traveling east to west. The reason Bangkok is so prone for this type of weather is because hurricanes are created and strive in warm climate conditions. As the hurricane moves east to west it then moves poleward causing the massive floods.
http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/asia-pacific/thailand/communities-cut-off-by-flood-waters-on-the-outskirts-of-bangkok/
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