While floodwaters are beginning to recede across major parts of Bangkok, a severe crisis persists in the district of Lat Krabang, on the capital’s eastern outskirts, where thousands of residents remain cut off without electricity, clean water, or basic essential services.

Recovery efforts are being overshadowed by tragedy. On Tuesday, CGTN correspondent Dusita Saokaew witnessed a body being recovered and transported away on the back of a pickup truck from a residential sector where roads have completely vanished beneath deep water.

Just kilometers from Suvarnabhumi International Airport, navigation through the Rom Klao housing estate in Lat Krabang is now possible only by boat.

For tens of thousands of residents living in local housing estates within earshot of passing aircraft, the primary danger has shifted from rising water levels to the immense daily struggle for survival.

Local resident Mu Boonpitaksorn described the dire economic and personal toll of the prolonged inundation. "It is devastating. Nobody can make a living. I have no money right now, all I have left is just myself," she said.

Small boats deliver vital supplies of food, drinking water, and medicine while serving as an increasingly critical evacuation route.

Weerasak Kowsurat, Secretary-General of the Friends in Need (of "Pa")  Volunteers Foundation, warned that humanitarian conditions are rapidly deteriorating. "I think people here are losing hope. This is one of the largest disaster areas for the moment," Weerasak said, emphasizing the heightened vulnerability of disabled individuals, the elderly, and families with young children.

Although temporary shelters have been established across the city offering food and safety, leaving flooded homes requires residents to abandon possessions they could not carry. Sumontha Huanarvorn, an evacuee housed in a shelter, expressed the profound grief of losing her livelihood. "It is  all gone. I have nothing left. Absolutely nothing. Fridge, washing machine, fan, air conditioner… nothing left at all. Inside my home is all mud. It is too much… it’s beyond despair," she said.

As the wider capital gradually dries out, residents in Lat Krabang remain separated from their homes and former routines, waiting anxiously for roads to reappear and for a path back to normalcy.