Aftermath of today's storm over Samui

Aftermath of today's storm over Samui

As already reported in my daily weather update earlier today, with a picture of a coconut tree in full wind, today we had a bit of a storm sweeping over Samui.

Yesterday we had a bit of a prelude with a 10 minute freak storm, today the storm lasted well over an hour, closing in on two hours.

Many roads had all kind of debris on the surface, mainly coconut leaves that fell of the trees. A lot of cleaning up on the various was in progress or had already finished.

A couple of up rooted trees were to be admired as well. Too bad this one managed to miss the jet skis in the back ground.

Here's an older but still or there for up rooted tree. Plenty of ugly commercial road signs were blown over here as well.

In Bang Rak this boat has sunk and it's a fairly big one. Most boats took shelter in a different bay, guess some never learn. No boats were beached this time around though, like last year when La Fortune and a few speedboats stranded, almost to the day!

This small boat was sitting just in the middle of the surf and was popping up and down like mad, it just needed a few meters to go in front of the surf to be fine. Phone calls were being made when I took the picture to sort it out.

All in all, Choengmon and Bang Rak seemed to be doing just fine and most people just carried on as usual or were cleaning up. I wonder if there's a lot of damage on the rest of the island.

The weather forecast predicts even stronger winds later today and tomorrow, after Tuesday it eases up again.

Camille