Massive Flood Eyes Bangkok

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"Picture the equivalent of 480,000 Olympic-sized pools of water trying to make their way through Bangkok at the moment,"  Craig Steffensen, Asian Development Bank's country director for Thailand said Friday. "Combined with the floodwaters trying to get out and the tides coming in...we could see a perfect storm in Bangkok."

Faced with its worst floods since 1942, Bangkok is about to burst with the massive fllod and enormous amount of water pouring in. The capital lies barely above sea level and is already sinking within the Chao Phraya delta, as sea levels in the Gulf of Thailand rise.

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