Worst Flooding in Decades Swamps Thailand

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Worst Flooding in Decades Swamps Thailand

Heavy monsoon rains have been drenching Southeast Asia since mid-July, causing mudslides and widespread flooding along the Mekong River. Parts of Thailand are now experiencing the worst floods in half a century, as water inundates villages, historic temples, farms, and factories. At least 281 people have been killed in Thailand, and another 200 in neighboring Cambodia. Rescue workers are scrambling to prevent a humanitarian disaster, and Thailand's prime minister is warning businesses not to use the flooding as an excuse to raise prices. About 8.2 million people in 60 of Thailand's 77 provinces have been affected by the flooding, and economic losses are so far estimated to top $2 billion. Collected here are recent images of the crisis in Thailand as some 10 million residents in Bangkok keep a wary eye on the approaching surge of floodwater, due to reach the capital in a few days. 

Children play in a flooded street in Sena district, Ayutthaya province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, on September 12, 2011. Monsoon rains, storms, floods and mudslides have killed at least 280 people since July, authorities said. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) 

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Rain clouds approach the city center of Thailand's capital Bangkok, on September 23, 2011. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) # 

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Thai motorists travel through a flooded street during a heavy monsoon downpour in Bangkok, on September 3, 2011. Dozens of people have died in northern Thailand over the past few weeks in floods that have also affected over a million people.(Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images) # 

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This aerial picture shows an under-construction temple surrounded by floodwater outside the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, on October 11, 2011. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images) # 

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A "reclining Buddha" inundated with floodwaters on October 10, 2011 at an ancient temple -- one of a number of UNESCO World Heritage sites in Ayutthaya province. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images) # 

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A Buddhist monk walks through floodwater on a street at a temple in Ayutthaya province, on October 7, 2011.(Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) # 

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Buddhist monks are evacuated on a pickup truck on a flooded street in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand on October 9, 2011.(AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) # 

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Rattanaporn, 13, floats along the swollen Yom river near her home on August 23, 2011 in Phinchit, Thailand.(Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) # 

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Cars sit submerged in floodwater at a Honda car factory outside the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, on October 11, 2011. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images) # 

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Flooded houses outside Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, on October 11, 2011. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images) # 

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A vendor sells her wares in her flooded shop in Ayutthaya province, on September 30, 2011. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) # 

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A man rests in a shelter after he was evacuated from the flooded area of Ayutthaya province, on October 9, 2011.(Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom) # 

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A railroad track hangs in mid-air after a flash flood caused by heavy rain swept away the ground in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, on August 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu) # 

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Thai emergency workers carry the body of a child from a collapsed building on September 12, 2011 in Saraburi, Thailand.(Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) # 

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Flooded Chaiwattanaram Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok on October 11, 2011. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images) # 

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An elephant helps people moving their belongings through a flooded area in Ayutthaya province, on October 8, 2011.(Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) # 

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A disabled man waits for assistance to cross a flooded street in the town of Sena, Thailand, on September 13, 2011.(Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) # 

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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/worst-flooding-in-decades-swamps-thailand/100168/