Thai flood situation may ease early next month
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Workers ride on their vehicle through a flooded road in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in damage and putting nearly 700,000 people temporarily out of work. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Workers ride on their vehicle through a flooded road in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in damage and putting nearly 700,000 people temporarily out of work. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Thai Buddhist monks wade along the flooded Weeru Wanaram temple at Don Muang District, in Bangkok, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in damage and putting nearly 700,000 people temporarily out of work. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A Thai man uses an improvised float to move around the flooded Don Muang District, in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in damage and putting nearly 700,000 people temporarily out of work. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A Thai resident talks on her mobile phone as they move to higher grounds at Don Muang District, in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in damage and putting nearly 700,000 people temporarily out of work. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Thai Buddhist monks carry sandbags to fortify their barriers from rising floodwaters at the Weeru Wanaram temple at Don Muang District, in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in damage and putting nearly 700,000 people temporarily out of work. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
BANGKOK (AP) ? Thai authorities say the worst of the flooding that is threatening the capital will be over by the first week of November, but they're warning people to stay prepared.
The Flood Relief Operations Command gave its advice Sunday in a televised press conference just a day after reports that the city's Chao Phraya river was overflowing its banks deepened concerns that Bangkok would be inundated.
The command's chief, Justice Minister Pracha Promnok, said people should not be too concerned about the spillover because it could be drained off. He also said water in a major canal that had been overflowing was receding.
However, the agency also urged people to adjust their lifestyles to cope with the emergency.
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