[TriLUG] Bye bye Tiger

[Reginald Reed via TriLUG]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Michael Kimsal via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> IIRC, around 3-4 years ago, there was some big jump in drive prices across
> the board due to some bad weather in SE Asia.
>

Some "bad weather?"  That's a HUGE understatement!  From wikipedia:

Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon> season in Thailand
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand>. Beginning at the end of July
triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Nock-ten_(2011)>, flooding
soon spread through the provinces of northern, northeastern, and central
Thailand along the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins. In October
floodwaters reached the mouth of the Chao Phraya and inundated parts of the
capital city of Bangkok <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok>. Flooding
persisted in some areas until mid-January 2012, and resulted in a total of
815 deaths (with 3 missing) and 13.6 million people affected. Sixty-five of
Thailand's 77 provinces
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Thailand> were
declared flood disaster zones, and over 20,000 square kilometres
(7,700 sq mi) of farmland was damaged.[1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods#cite_note-EOC_report_17_Jan-1>
The
disaster has been described as "the worst flooding yet in terms of the
amount of water and people affected."