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  • Jenica Lake เหล็ถเลถMamaLake@beige.party
    Sep 26, 2026, 6:45 AM

    The waters have raised again, please understand that this is not clean water and that when the waters rise all of the fauna that exists on the waters edge is now also at the doorsteps. The water rising is filled with tadpoles, algae, even fish swimming up the gutters. Snakes and frogs have arrived to eat the thousands of bugs that have now descended into the bathroom and kitchen. Garbage and decay are also in this water.

    The people that have lived here for a lifetime see no problem with any of this, it's just what happens every year at this time, every 3-4 years this house has its first floor entirely engulfed in the water for up to 6 months after the original waters rise. They have their protocols of moving important things upstairs and leaving the rest to be thrown away after the flood waters recede. They have their protocols for taking a boat to where they park their cars. They have government funding to lightly support the inconvenience of having their home half flooded.

    But this is not normal for me and adding to the extremely tense financial abuse that's occurred, I can no longer stay here. Period. We've got one nights sleep before the waters reach the bathroom and kitchen. Two nights sleep before the first floor is over taken-- each day we are alerted as to how much water will be released above us, this morning's release came at 5 am. I don't want to be involved in the last minute packing of things upstairs, strangers moving items without concern of who those items belong to.

    The next house is not ready yet, they are fixing the kitchen and it appears to be bakable, but it's just not ready yet. Our truck is almost ready for us, but we are waiting on the mechanic/owner before it becomes ours. And while I do not wish to be living out of a hotel again, it may be our only option until everything else clears.

    I'm restlessly exhausted. Packed and ready to leave. $15 will get us a night in a hotel. Every little bit will help more than I can convey here. Please help me get out of this mess and on to a drier path with more possibility for my businesses and plants to grow.

    Venmo : Jenica-Lake
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    #MutualAid #fedihelp #superElNino #climate_change #thailand #flooding

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  • Jenica Lake เหล็ถเลถMamaLake@beige.party
    Sep 27, 2026, 7:51 AM

    Flood water rising and being pumped from klong to the smaller river close to us. The water has risen 3 meters in 24 hours. It’s still raining and water from the north is being perpetually pumped south. Bangkok is declared a state of emergency, but north of Bangkok has even more standing water.
    #SuperElNino #thailand #flooding

    Video from the adjacent road there is a brown colored river swollen far beyond its normal level, in the distance we see pipes pumping brown water from a klong out of view, the water is almost as high as the bridge over it
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  • Jenica Lake เหล็ถเลถMamaLake@beige.party
    Oct 1, 2026, 6:09 AM

    In conversations over the past few days a few things have struck me as true.

    1- my British auntie here, one of the most negative friends I have in Thailand, told me that I’m being too negative 🙀 That I must simply put the fear and the guilt around leaving into a little box and move forward.

    2- my husband reminding me that nervousness can be a sign of excitement, rather than fear.

    3- telling stories of living in the SNOW to our friends that have never experienced it. My friend Koi is curling her toes in absolute delight, her eyes filled with wonder as we regale the plights of waking to a meter of snow at a time. Snow cannot be stopped, it will add an extra hour of exercise to your day just to leave the house and it will effect your commute. Snow will effect your community, we check on our neighbors and shovel their path for them when they cannot. Snow is challenging. … flooding is challenging. It can come in the middle of the night and it will bring an extra hour or more of shuffling everything in the house around, flooding will affect your commute and your community, we will check on our relations and help them move their things to higher ground.

    Can I transmute my fears of flooding happening in the night into a type of excitement the way I experience snow?

    I may be too tired to care any more. I have enough money to get into the apartment and make a payment on the truck, but the apartment will not be available until October 15. If I bolt to a hotel, like my nervous system wants me to, I will not be able to afford to get into the apartment when it comes available. I’m here, in this house, for two more weeks if I cannot fundraise enough. I’m tired y’all. And my words just aren’t wording the way I need anymore. Thank you for the support, for reading and sitting with me in the uncertainty.

    #blog #flooding #thailand

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  • Jenica Lake เหล็ถเลถMamaLake@beige.party
    Oct 11, 2026, 8:02 AM

    Finally free from the flood zone and back to singing. We’re in a mountain town we’ve gigged in before so we’ve been practicing again and I’ve sung more in the past 5 days than I did in the whole year before. It’s not permanent and we’ll be back to staying with friends until our own baking home can be found. The truck is almost ready (!!) and we’ll soon be zipping around in it, but until then we are spending more on taxis and trains and transport than I like. We are just about half way to our goal though! $545/1075
    Special gratitude to those of you who have boosted, offered encouragement, and sent monies to help see us through (((hugs)))
    #mutualAid

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