(1) Preparations in the impoverished riverside slum of Klong Toey, are underway. Community organizers are scrambling to evacuate the elderly and the young.

(2) Klong Toey is located at the main city port on the banks of the Chao Phraya River that is now running at record high levels.

(3) Many khlongs, canals in Thai, in Mae Klong River have been changed along with the change of their surrounding land uses.

(4) Preparations in the impoverished riverside slum of Klong Toey, are underway.

(5) While in Klong Toey residents are clearing drains of plastic and other rubbish in a bid to speed up the outflow of water.

(6) For communities such as Klong Toey the economic anxieties will remain long after the floods recede.

(7) Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra issued the evacuation warning to residents who live along Klong Hok canal in Rangsit area around 3.30 p. m. local time.

(8) A family floats back on a handmade raft to their house (seen behind) on October 23, 2011 in Klong Luang, on the outskirts of Bangkok.

(9) Bangkok is surrounded by a vast, damp, alluvial plain, crisscrossed by a network of klong.