What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? BUDDHA

Correction from the last blog post:

Mercy is staying open to be here for the community members when the waters arrive, so Pung and I went to the nearly empty grocery store today with half of Bangkok's population to stock up. The irony of all this water coming, is that there is absolutely NO bottled water ANYWHERE and it has been like this for over a week. We have cereal and eggs and bread and rice and all the proper "preparation" foods. Laos will have to wait as we prepared for the worst and hope for the best. Today the sun is shining and the streets of jet-sip-rai (my neighborhood) are dry. Tomorrow who knows.

Here are pictures from the areas around Bangkok. This is apparently what we are looking to have very soon. Keep your eyes open for the bat signal!!!

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/bangkok-underwater/100178/

I will continue to keep you posted. The streets are lined with heavy bags and many people have taken to building cement walls outside their doors, in hopes of keeping the waters out of their stores. I will have to get out and take some pictures before the water makes it to the city center!

PeaceLoveWater

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