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Personal Thailand strongly advice you to skip this full moon party. If you are already on the way or there already you know that some streets are filled with 70 cm of water.

This time of year people get stranded on Samui and other Island in South Thailand and accidents happen with speed boats when they try to go out in strong winds.

If possible avoid Samui right now and wait a week or so to the water have gone down. The flooding has been worse every year because people cut down the threes on the hills to make house, off course against the law.

Chumphon province in south Thailand that is also declared a disaster zone.

The Marine and Coastal Resources Department of Thailand have discovered a box jellyfish outside Phi Phi Island in Krabi province. A Swedish girl was killed last year by this rare jellyfish in Ko Lanta Krabi.

People that see normal jellyfish should avoid swimming in it (not very easy since it is every where right now) and if stung go to nearest hospital. In the mean time put vinegar on it not water it will just make it worse.

The box jellyfish is deadly if a person is stung to many times but it is very rare in Thai coastal waters. The government will try to put up warning signs but well you know how that is going to go.

If you want to know how a box jellyfish looks like it looks like this.

Facts about box jellyfish

A Swedish man has been arrested in Phuket for the possession of Marijuana. He said it belongs to a friend that he wanted to help stop using the drug (not the best story). The man was riding his bike and was stopped by the police in Phuket and they found he drugs on him. Swedish newspapers talk about death penalty but since it is only marijuana that will not be the case.

The Swedish man complains over bad food and a hot cell he also says his lawyer want to take all his money and is not any good. Welcome to Thailand mate, make your self at home.

If he had any money he could have raised bail but he says he does not have any so he is stuck. My advice is to sell the bike the fat gold chain around the neck and give the police what they want to forget the door open and leave the country.

The PAD in south Thailand threatening to close airports again and the five airports are Hat Yai, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani and Phuket. They told the press that they will start blocking the airports on Saturday when the new PM trying to visit his home town. The PAD wants him to back to Bangkok since they think he is a proxy for his brother in law Mr Thaksin the former ousted PM of Thailand.

If you travel to south Thailand with flight during the weekend make sure you check this blog for more updates.