Just had an email from a friend who is living near Patong and he says conditions are very bad there. No organisation from the Authourities which are virtually non-existent,looting at night and Police are keeping away much of the time.
He says he's been dropping food & water off for the homeless and his girlfriend is using her pick-up truck to collect dead bodies.
Luckily for him he'd left Patong a couple of hours before the waves hit, but he's motorbike is history.
Terrible situation.