Thailand has been flooded for months this year. The first impact we felt was that our maid asked to go home earlier since there was news that her house would be flooded in another 2 hours.

We thought we were safe, it was in another province. We invited her and her son to stay with us in case they had to evacuate. But turned out that we had to evacuate ourselves

We had been keeping our belongings and moved some to papa's office which is on the 2nd floor, but not all and not yet ready to evacuate. A Thai friend called that Friday night 14 Oct and told us that a water gate broke, AIT and TU issued evacuation orders. So in panic we packed our things and moved to a serviced apartment in Bangkok (which turned out to be very nice, better than my expectation ;))) the kids have also been enjoying our stay

AIT was safe that night, so the next day we went back to AIT to get some more things, wash our clothes and back to Bangkok. The next day we went outing to Paragon and Villa Market. The next day we stayed at the apartment. The next day papa went back to AIT to get some more stuffs as the situation got worse around AIT. AIT is still safe (no water) till now but the areas surrounding it are already inundated. So we don't know for how long AIT will stay safe and if we are inside we won't be able to go out should we need something

Timothy has runny nose as usual, but Jeremy got sick with cold. The night before he cried so much that we got worried. Then last night he vomited and has been having blocked nose and cried again

We'd looked for apartment which is more affordable for 1 month stay in Bangkok. But now there's the news that Bangkok governor said Bangkok has 48 hours to prepare for flood
So we decided to go to Jakarta for 2 weeks