VIDEO: Bangkok residents worry whether worst of flooding is over

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Residents of Bangkok spent another day worrying about rising waters and parts of Thailand’s capital are submerged in some of the country’s worst flooding in more than a half century.

The central core of the capital, however, emerged from the weekend relatively dry and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told citizens on Monday that the worst of the flooding is over. But it’s little consolation elsewhere in the capital, where entire neighborhoods are covered by several feet of water.

Rattima Srichan stands half-submerged in the middle of a Bangkok street, as she heaves a plastic bag above her shoulders.

When the government first warned that the capital would be threatened by torrential floods, Rattima thought she could weather it. Then this weekend, the nearby Chao Phraya river burst into her neighborhood. Now, what’s left of her home is under four feet of water; there’s no electricity, and no tap water.

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