Storms hit parts of North, Northeast
The roof of this house in Phitsanulok’s Nakhon Thai district was blown off when a summer storm swept through the area on Sunday night. About 400 homes and 16 power poles in the area were damaged.
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Tropical storms wreaked havoc in several provinces in the North and Northeast on Sunday night, officials said yesterday.
In Phitsanulok, more than 420 houses and about 250 rai of farmland were damaged in Nakhon Thai district. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. In Loei, a hailstorm damaged more than 100 homes on Sunday night, provincial disaster prevention-and-mitigation chief Suthep Maneechote said. Most of the homes were in Chiang Khan's Tambon Khaokaew and Pak Chom's Tambon Huai Pichai. "Each hailstone was between 0.5 of an inch [1.3 centimetres] and 2 inches in diameter," he said, adding that a power blackout also occurred during the hailstorm. Suthep said officials were surveying damage in the affected areas and providing urgent assistance. A Loei-based weather bureau said the hail and rainstorms would continue in the Northeast, especially in the region's northern districts. Meanwhile, people in Ubon Ratchathani's Pho Sai district were praying for rain. Tawat Saengdaeng, who heads Tambon Pho Sai Administrative Organisation, said there had been no rain in his area at all since the start of this year. "Local people are suffering from the drought," he said.
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