Dry, but not out of the woods yet...

The threat is not over yet

The good news:  The rain water from the weekend and earlier this week (when they had to close school for a day) has disipated and the streets around here are dry.  The sky is blue and the sun is shining.

The bad news:  The barriers that have been built to hold the water out of Bangkok are just barely holding.  We still have high tide.  The water is still moving south towards the sea from the northern and central parts of the country.  Just the past few days, 2 meters of water filled the house of my friend's brother.  In a matter of hours it was waist high.  If the barrier breaks at any point, water will not only fill Bangkok, it will rush in.  It will take a matter of weeks for the water levels to go down, and it's quite possible that they will go up before they go down.

So, while it is easy to look out the window and take down your defenses, we are not yet through this "war".  The next week will still be critical.  Your prayers are still needed.  Because if this water really does break through, than what I saw last weekend will be nothing...