2011 Southeast Asian floods

The 2011 monsoon season saw one record flood event in Indochina across several countries and a few separate limited flood events parts of the same nations: Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar and heavy flooding in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Laos also sustained flood damage. By late October 2011, 2.3 million people have been hit by flooding in Thailand, while the flooding in Cambodia has affected close to 1.2 million people, according to estimates by the United Nations.{{cite news|last=Fuller|first=Thomas|title=Relief Is Slow to Reach Cambodia Flood Victims – Cambodia Floods Affect More Than A Million|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/asia/floods-in-cambodia-affect-more-than-a-million.html?_r=1|accessdate=6 November 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2011}} Unrelated to the northern floods, Southern Thailand near Malaysia has been lashed with flooding in early November{{cite web|title=Prompt response to Hat Yai's Floods|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/205050/prompt-response-to-hat-yai-floods|publisher=Bangkok Post|date=November 6, 2010}} and again in December also affecting as far north as Chumporn. In the November event, Southern Thailand near Hat Yai was hit, North-central Vietnam had their own event in October. Myanmar had reported a series of limited but still deadly and destructive events from June to October.

The 2011 typhoon season in Philippines overlapped the monsoon season in Indochina, and the country was hit by a series of storms over the course of 4 months: Typhoon Nesat in September, which was followed shortly after by Typhoon Nalgae, and then in December by Tropical Storm Washi, which hit on an unusual track, timing and location.

All told, well over 2,828 have lost their lives to a series of flooding events of varying origins in Southeast Asia since August 2011 in the above-mentioned nations, worldwide supply-chain disruptions occurred in technology sector, and billion-dollar losses and severe parts shortages rippled to corporations of developed nations, and the assumption of safety from flood waters was put into question in many nations thought or assumed to be prepared.