Of interest to Expats

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced

• acetaminophen is causing rare, but dangerous skin reactions in some people.
• ...commonly found in drugs like in Tylenol...

Been receiving their promotions with regular frequency.  This is probably of interest to football fans

Thai Expat TV

Offers 12 British TV channels  Channel list 

Offers 2 day free trail (after you register)

Prices start at 600THB monthly (software package)

Saturday

Saturn

Purple

Soup's Onoccasional sun

Weather direction changed overnight (Aug 8-9)
Previously the weather arrived from the southeast. 
It is now arriving from south-southwest.
Cloudy and showers thru Sunday.
Half an inch of rain was recorded during the past 24 hours

The Road Beyond the Temple

One of my favorite trips is the road beyond beyond What Phra That Dum.

Where Nong Hahn Begins.

 
Phra Thad Dum Pond

Multipurpose: Road and duck pond

You are now at stunt driving school

Foraging for dinner

Surrounded by rice fields

  
Roadside fishing is very popular in Thailand

It's boating season

End of the road

Back to the City

Only in China

Friday

Venus

Weather advisory - nonsense!

Thai Meteorological Department Advisory

Issued 10:30 p.m. on Aug 7,2013

People should beware of the severe weather!

"Tropical Storm “MANGKHUT”" is moving west-northwest with wind speed of 20 km/hr

NOAA satellite image at 3:30 a.m., Aug 8.  

The center of the storm is well north.  
Judging by the forecast movement,
I'd say: locally mostly cloudy, nothing drastic.
A shower here and there.

Different story up north

As seen on STV (Sakon Nakhon TV)

Rosewood Theft

posted Aug 7

50 year old trees adjacent to the abbey ruins at Ban Nong Bua.

Found at the scene, water bottle, many energy drink bottles, and pack asbestos mosquito repellent sachets.

Professional criminal groups are suspected 

Video:  Driver flees Police checkpoint

posted Aug 4

Abandons truck loaded with processed lumber

Thursday

Mars

Pipe laying all over Sakon Nakhon

The Jackhammer Waltz continues in my neighborhood. 
Water service and Water drain pipes are being installed in many areas throughout Sakon Nakhon
 Drive safely 

Most people aren't ready just yet to dispose of their sandbags.
Chance of  flooding on their minds

Barcelona FC vs. Thailand FC today

at Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand

Thai TV Channel 3 broadcast begins at 18:30

Cloudy and a torrent or a few

Overnight rainfall 29.6 mm 1.2"

8 pm yesterday:   

• temperature 29 C / 84 F.   
• Humidity 88%

Tropical Depression 10 strengthened into Tropical Storm Mangkhut yesterday

Of the coming days prachachat.net writes: 

• '...August 7-9, 2013, there will be a torrent in the Northeast...'

Yellow indicates the path of the center of the storm.

Indications are our weather is coming from a similar direction

Animated Satellite at weather com