A man casts his fishing net near the reclining Buddha image at Wat Loke Yasutha temple in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district of Ayutthaya province on October 8, 2011. PATIPAT JANGTHONG
The first part of Thailand submerged deals with language used to describe floods and flood-related situations. Here is the introduction to that section plus one example story dealing with vocabulary related to rain.
In the book itself you will learn hundreds of additional words before you start reading actual stories from the Bangkok Post.