{"id":14599,"date":"2025-11-26T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:17:38","slug":"thai-hero-rescues-and-shelters-singaporean-tourist-trapped-in-raging-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14599","title":{"rendered":"Thai \u2018hero\u2019 rescues and shelters Singaporean tourist trapped in raging floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/26\/b9199d89-db01-48fc-82e9-0e70ebdd0d48_cb2a3769.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">What began as a self-drive holiday to <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Thailand<\/span> turned into a harrowing ordeal for 74-year-old Singaporean Ronnie Toh.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">For the trip had coincided with some of the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">worst flooding<\/span> to hit the country\u2019s south in years, with days of heavy rain inundating major roads, cutting power to neighbourhoods and disrupting water supply.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As the rain intensified and water levels rose in the city of Hat Yai, one of the declared disaster zones, Ronnie got separated from his family and became uncontactable.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It happened when he left the hotel he was staying in, wading in knee-deep water to a shopping centre seven minutes\u2019 walk away to find a stronger mobile phone signal, Ronnie\u2019s son, Vincent, said over a phone interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Then the rain got heavier.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe found that things were getting a bit more different and the locals were getting more panicky at the complex,\u201d said Vincent, 50, who did not join his father for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As floodwaters got above waist level, his father managed to keep in contact with his family through social media and asked if he should return to the hotel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3334161\/thai-hero-rescues-and-shelters-singaporean-tourist-trapped-raging-floods?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a self-drive holiday to Thailand turned into a harrowing ordeal for 74-year-old Singaporean Ronnie Toh. For the trip had coincided with some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[10787,665,10845,10843,10844,1293,2855,5021,5052],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-floods","tag-hero","tag-raging","tag-rescues","tag-shelters","tag-singaporean","tag-thai","tag-tourist","tag-trapped","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}