Thailand Floods

Thai Buddhist monks and volunteers help each other build an elevated walkway to Ban Kadee temple in Phatum Thani province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Thai authorities were staging a fighting retreat Wednesday against flood waters that threaten Bangkok, after the country's oldest factory park was completely inundated and a nearby one faced imminent threat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai Buddhist monks and volunteers help each other build an elevated walkway to Ban Kadee temple in Phatum Thani province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Thai authorities were staging a fighting retreat Wednesday against flood waters that threaten Bangkok, after the country's oldest factory park was completely inundated and a nearby one faced imminent threat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai Buddhist novice drains flooded water from Ban Kadee temple in Phatum Thani province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Thai authorities were staging a fighting retreat Wednesday against flood waters that threaten Bangkok, after the country's oldest factory park was completely inundated and a nearby one faced imminent threat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A Thai Buddhist monk wades through a flooded street at Ban Kadee temple in Phatum Thani province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Thai authorities were staging a fighting retreat Wednesday against flood waters that threaten Bangkok, after the country's oldest factory park was completely inundated and a nearby one faced imminent threat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

CaptionMotorcyclists make their way through a flooded street in Phatum Thani province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Thai authorities were staging a fighting retreat Wednesday against flood waters that threaten Bangkok, after the country's oldest factory park was completely inundated and a nearby one faced imminent threat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai people wade through a flooded area in Phatum Thani Province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Thai authorities were staging a fighting retreat Wednesday against flood waters that threaten Bangkok, after the country's oldest factory park was completely inundated and a nearby one faced imminent threat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A Thai Buddhist monk walks through floodwaters at Daeng Thamachart temple in Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to add more than 1 million sandbags to Bangkok's vulnerable northern flood defenses after the city's governor warned they were needed to keep waters from swamping the capital.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Workers, with belongings, make their way to a flooded road after being ordered to evacuate when floodwater broke through makeshift barriers at Nawa Nakhon industrial estate on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to add more than 1 million sandbags to Bangkok's vulnerable northern flood defenses after the city's governor warned they were needed to keep waters from swamping the capital. (AP Photo)

A man and his son walk at a deserte Pratunam pier in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration have drained water in the canals in Bangkok in a preparation to intake flowing floodwaters that supposed to hit the capital within 48 hours. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

A Thai Buddhist monk walks through a flooded area near the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to add more than 1 million sandbags to Bangkok's vulnerable northern flood defenses after the city's governor warned they were needed to keep waters from swamping the capital.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A soldier offers to take care of an evacuee's dog during an evacuation at Nawa Nakhon industrial estate on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to add more than 1 million sandbags to Bangkok's vulnerable northern flood defenses after the city's governor warned they were needed to keep waters from swamping the capital. (AP Photo)

Workers ride on a military vehicle after being ordered to evacuate when floodwater broke through makeshift barriers at Nawa Nakhon industrial estate on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to add more than 1 million sandbags to Bangkok's vulnerable northern flood defenses after the city's governor warned they were needed to keep waters from swamping the capital. (AP Photo)

Thai workers and volunteers make sandbags in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to shore up vulnerable flood defenses along Bangkok's northernmost outskirts after the city's governor said more than 1 million more sandbags would be needed to stop floodwaters from swamping the capital. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai workers and volunteers fill bags with sand in Bangkok , Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to shore up vulnerable flood defenses along Bangkok's northernmost outskirts after the city's governor said more than 1 million more sandbags would be needed to stop floodwaters from swamping the capital. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A Thai flood victim on a raft uses a paddle to collect relief supplies dropped from a Thai military helicopter in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday Oct. 17,2011. Bangkok breathed easier Monday as barriers protecting the capital from Thailand's worst flooding in decades held firm, but authorities ordered a new evacuation north of the city where floodwaters breached defenses of an industrial park. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai residents collect relief supplies dropped from a Thai military helicopter in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday Oct. 17,2011. Bangkok breathed easier Monday as barriers protecting the capital from Thailand's worst flooding in decades held firm, but authorities ordered a new evacuation north of the city where floodwaters breached defenses of an industrial park. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)