Good morning everyone of ASEAN Hive community, flooding is becoming a yearly event in Cambodia now and certainly we have only had average rains for this time of the year, but flooding itself is restricted to an area around the township.
On Wednesday I drive my motorbike with my mom to see how the situation was since we heard about flooding in our small village.
Small cottage at Pandan farm
This Panden farm is big. The owner also grows other plant beside Panden too.
I am not sure how long this farm is, but when it flooded, there was always lots of things for the farmers to do on rainy days.
Actually, I took this picture 2 days after it flooded, so the water is decreasing. The owner of this Panden farm told my mom that they need to fix and maintaining equipment, processing crops indoors, shipping crops, and yes If crops still have to be harvested or animals tended to, even if it's a rainy day you're working out in the weather regardless.
Elephant ear plant
It isn’t the first time that I see this plant, but it catch my attention when I just take a look at the lake. Looks at their shape, it really looks like a heart. Many mores leaves stay near each other I think it so impressive.
How this small wooden boat help them 🚣 🏠
Actually there house is far away from where I was standing. Without this small wooden boat I think this child and his little brother might have to walk through the flood until they arrive home.
The hard situation I think of is that their small boat can be constructed to handle limited or specific amounts of water but the overall issue is water is kind of heavy and once too much of it gets in, they might lose the ability to float and sink.
I can’t think of the future what they going to do when the situation is worse than this time.
I just hope our government will find a solution for them.
The owner house carry their plates to a safety place
The owner of this house hadn’t lose anything while flooding, but they said it really hard for them to carry all the value stuff inside their house to a safety place on time since flooding is unpredictable if they didn’t hurry enough to transfer all the valuable things, they must lose everything immediately.
I would say this isnt just a hard time for them to face the flooding problem, they also live with fear too because things happen too seriously and it likely to become more worse when it is going to happen at the night time.
Their little brother
Well, I didn’t really know that they have another little brother.
I just knew when I was about to find a good place to sit and one of my neighbor told me that they’re both siblings.
What I love about this little boys is his smile. It seems like he was happy and excited when he saw new people as me because I rarely visit this place. It was just my second time.
Road we drive to the flood area
Before I arrived their house, I didn’t expect that there was any floods because the roads seems to be nice and the weather is just warm. However it wasn’t until I drive about 5 minutes more.
Me and my mom have captured a lots of things. We can see how the boys stuffers and how hard their family life is when flooding.
It is a blog about my small village situation. I hope everyone enjoy and stay healthy!
