The flood had subsided by mid-January, but there had been extensive damage to the foot high, foot wide, earthen boundary walls that separated each plot of land. Some plots were large by the standards of the region, covering four or five rai, but others were only half a rai or 800m2. These walls had been practically disintegrated by being under water for weeks and the retreating water had finished the job.
The farmland to the west of Baan Suay looked like tidal mud flats with only occasional trees to show that it wasn’t. In most cases, the white concrete posts that demarcated the fields were still in place, so they could rebuild the walls quite easily, but in other cases where there was a dispute, the local Land Registry Office had to send out surveyors to fix the boundaries again before t
