Obvious distress!

First time visitors to Ayutthaya likely would not notice much of the floods effects. The temples are again open to visitors and tourists are beginning to return. Many of the hotels and guesthouses are open and evidence of the flood has been excised. Thai cities always have a lot of litter and trash strewn about in open spaces.
However, now in my fourth stay here I can see a radical difference. Effects of the flood shows up in everything from the high water marks on walls, to more litter and trash and many abandoned buildings. The house where I stay is in a new development and about half of the houses on the street have been abandoned, at least for now, in various stages of construction. The same house abandonment was obvious on Gai's street as well...though those were all houses that had been completed.