Mae Sai 04/18/2010 Hail Storm

Today we just hung out around the place and talked about the projects we have going during the next few days. It is kind of a typical day.

Tomorrow Cat Telecom is supposed to run the wire down our street and hook up both the DSL for Internet and the Television.

The crew that is going to put on our new tile roof are supposed to start tomorrow. The boss is supposed to come by and pick up 20,000 THB for the sand, cement and 148 square meters of tile.

The contractor from Burma is supposed to come by so he can answer some questions we have about the new rooms and the new bathroom. Here they call it a water room as the whole room is made to be wet.

Around 6:30 PM it started to rain. Then it started to hail small hail about the size of a green pea. More rain and then the hail got larger and come down harder. We saw pieces of hail that were larger than golf balls.

At first it was fun picking up the small pieces of hail but then we realized that the hail was coming down so hard it was breaking the asbestos roofs. The hail was breaking out big pieces of the roofs.

Yes, they still use asbestos to make roof material here.

At our new place only the garage/cooking area at the back has this type of roof. We got about ten, pretty good size holes.

The bad part is that Daeng's Mother has that type of roof on her apartment and so does brother Tun's place.

After the rain slowed down a little Daeng went over to her Mom's and Brother's to find they were flooding out due to the hail breaking the roofs.

Both their places had a lot of water damage. Daeng helped them get situated for the night and came back home.

This day turned out to not be typical.