
Houses and fields are inundated in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok ,Thailand, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Thai authorities have ordered the immediate evacuation of the country's oldest industrial park, which was founded in 1971, in Pathum Thani province after floodwaters breached its defenses of the park and threatened to inundate the factories inside.


A Thai military helicopter drops relief supplies to flood victims in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday Oct. 17,2011. Bangkok breathed easier Monday as barriers protecting the capital from Thailand's worst flooding in decades held firm, but authorities ordered a new evacuation north of the city where floodwaters breached defenses of an industrial park.

Motorists park their vehicles on a freeway where they thought safer from floods in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday Oct. 17,2011. Bangkok breathed easier Monday as barriers protecting the capital from Thailand's worst flooding in decades held firm, but authorities ordered a new evacuation north of the city where floodwaters breached defenses of an industrial park

Factory workers join hands in stacking sandbags to make flood barriers at Nawa Nakorn industrial district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. The government expressed confidence Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand's worst flooding in decades, as the capital's elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the north.


Factory workers join hands in stacking sandbags to make flood barriers at Nawa Nakorn industrial district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. The government expressed confidence Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand's worst flooding in decades, as the capital's elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the north



Thai workers and volunteers fill bags with sand in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Soldiers, civil servants and families worked frantically Tuesday to shore up vulnerable flood defenses along Bangkok's northernmost outskirts after the city's governor said more than 1 million more sandbags would be needed to stop floodwaters from swamping the capital.

Areas adjacent to the Chao Phraya River are submerged by floodwaters in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday Oct. 17,2011. Bangkok breathed easier Monday as barriers protecting the capital from Thailand's worst flooding in decades held firm, but authorities ordered a new evacuation north of the city where floodwaters breached defenses of an industrial park.