Thailand

It is always insanely, incredibly, almost unbearably hot, and it'll rain at random times, and when it rains it'll always flood, which makes it an adventure to ever go anywhere or meet with anybody when you're always having to deal with rain and flooding.

With the weather in Thailand, it is absolutely 100% unexpected, and you will not be able to predict what the weather might bring. You may be sleeping soundly in your bed, and you wake up to rain because it's raining so hard. It may be super hot outside, and you may not expect rain at all, and then 10 minutes later it's pouring.

So the weather in Thailand is generally insanely hot but there are times when it rains every single day and I don't know why but I think just like the Thai like what's it called like sewage system isn't very good and so water gets flooded everywhere most Thai people when it rains they stop what they're doing they go home and that's their day because the rain just ruins everything so

My first experience with crazy weather was when we went out and it just started pouring like really really hard It wasn't even that hard before we started. It was like a little drizzle and it was like maybe some sparse clouds We didn't think too much about it but then the clouds came in and just poured and we were drenched that night my knee was hurting from earlier in a day and It was just an awful time looking back at it It was really funny by the time it really sucked. But if you're going to Thailand look forward to rain

Okay, so my first area in Thailand was in a city called Ubon. And when I was there, there was a flood. So that the river that goes through that town is has all the water from like Laos and parts of Thailand. And so it's a pretty big river. And there was a big rainstorm. And it flooded, it probably went up, I think it I remember, right, it was about 40 feet up higher than normal. And so a lot of the people we were teaching their houses were underwater, which was really sad. And so we helped them move out, helped them get into tents, helped them to scrub down their houses once the water went down about a month later. But it was super duper eye opening, eye opening to see that extreme weather that had never really affected me in my life before. But it was amazing to see their perspective too.

We're up in the mountains in the north, and when rain season comes, that's all it does all day. So we're biking to this place, and we're by this hospital, and we're about to bike back. Rain just starts pouring. We can't even see, like, across the street. And so we're just like, okay, we got this. So we started sending it up the lane, and we realized that there's so much of a flood when we're biking. Every time our shoes come down, they scoop up water every time. So we're biking, like, two or three feet of water, and then it starts flowing faster. Our bikes, like, lose traction, so we gotta go really slow. And I realized, like, we hear this loud noise every time we pass a bus stop. And then I look, and it's, like, these Asian, these Thai people. They're giving us a standing applause every time we bike past them. It's these people just, like, see two white guys just coming down in the middle of mountains in the north of Thailand on their bikes and two or three feet of water. It's just a really weird thing.

Rain and heat, expect those. I mean, they do have seasons in Thailand, but not like seasons in here in North America and stuff. You know, they have a cold season, but the coldest it gets is like 69 degrees, but you'd also be surprised about how cold that actually feels once you've acclimated. And then rainy season is exactly what it sounds like, rainy season, and hot season is exactly what it sounds like, hot season. Just make sure that you're drinking plenty of water. In Thailand they have a sort of Gatorade knockoff called Sponsor. One bottle of that and one bottle of water is perfect to rehydrate you most of the time, and it can be found in really any like 7-Eleven or Tesco Lotus or anything like that.

Guarantee that there's gonna be a lot of rain. It's gonna pour, there's a rainy season, and during that time you're gonna see streets turn into canals, rivers, so I get some watertight clothing, shoes, stuff that can handle it pretty good if you're gonna be out there walking a lot. Get ready to get wet.

I have never seen so much rain in my life as when it rains in Thailand. And not only does it rain, it pours, and not only does it pour, it floods. And so just every single time that it rains, the streets are filling up with water. I've been in water maybe like half a foot deep, but probably the deepest was like a foot, a little over a foot of water. And that's pretty ridiculous. And it just rains a lot.

There's really only two kinds of crazy weather that you're going to come across, and that's torrential rain or deathly heat. And there's only three seasons in the year. There's the hot season, the rainy season, and the cold season. Or, if to be more accurate, there's the hot season, the hotter season, and the hot and wet season. But during rainy season, it can be pretty crazy because sometimes it'll rain so much that there'll be lots of flooding, depending on where you are. But a lot of times it won't rain continuously, like all day. It'll just rain for short bursts, but just pour. And that can be pretty exciting sometimes.

One time there was this insane rainstorm and it flooded like the entire streets in our little our little city in Galveston. So it actually took out all the power in the city as well and so for dinner we had half a cooked piece of bacon because that was where we were at in dinner before all the power shut down.

So for crazy weather in Southeast Asia, it's got to be monsoon season, besides like the horrendous heat. But there was one time when I was in Myanmar, we'd come back to Thailand to do our visas, and woke up in the morning at like 3.30, 4 a.m. to go catch our flight back to Myanmar, and we get all our suitcases, we're all like tired and groggy, and we get downstairs to the roads are flooded, just completely, about knee deep, almost hip deep in other places. So they finally get up and we take the van, we're driving the van through it, and the van is like a boat practically, and we even took out a plastic median because we couldn't see where the spaces were, so we're driving like with this median.

There are some pretty crazy rainstorms and it's so fun because you're out there biking and it just starts pouring and sometimes you just have a rain slicker on but it doesn't do anything. I remember a time where I was biking and it was all the way up to like my calves on my bike and it was insane, it was so high. Also in a place called Rangsit, we were walking and it just got flooded and we were just walking. We had to hike up our pants and everything and it was so fun though. It's really warm, it's humid, but it's great.