Pathum Thani

1. Wide of ten wheel truck dumping sandbags among group of volunteers, people rush in to take sandbags

2. Low tracking shot of many legs in water by the sandbags

3. Mid of a volunteer working to save the barrier

4. Wide of people putting sandbags in front of submerged factory

5. Mid of local resident Supatsorn Akaraphoonsombat

6. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Supatsorn Akaraphoonsombat, local resident:

"Please, come to save this spot. If the water gets through here, and we cannot stop it, this whole zone will be flooded."

7. Wide of a man talking on the phone in flooded area

8. Low shot of man walking in flood, carrying sandals

9. Mid of volunteers as truck pulls away

10. Pan of pick-up truck leaving to get more sandbags

11. Mid of people trying to save barrier

12. Helicopter overhead

Don Muang Airport, Bangkok

13. Wide interior of Flood Relief Operation Centre, set up in the old part of the international airport

14. Mid of relief officials

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Boonpracong, Flood Relief Operation Centre spokesman:

"Right now there's been a change in the status of the particular area called Nava Nakorn (industrial estate in Pathum Thani province). Apparently the water has arrived in the area and we have immediately advised everyone to stop operating their machines and evacuate all the workers to a designated spot."

Pathum Thani

16. Mid of crowd evacuating Nava Nakorn industrial estate

17. Mid of woman wading through dirty water, pull up to wide of people leaving the area

18. Mid of police officer speaking to crowd through bullhorn

19. Mid of woman jumping over cement barrier in road

20. Wide of many people jumping over cement barrier

21. Wide pan of crowd waiting at side of street

22. Mid of woman trying to clear the traffic

23. Mid of men with bikes on pick-up truck

24. Wide of heavy traffic on both sides of the streets evacuating the area

Pathum Thani

25. Mid of Thai soldiers loading up helicopter with food supplies for stranded communities

26. Mid of soldier stacking bags in helicopter

27. Wide of helicopters taking off

28. Mid interior of cockpit

29. Wide of helicopter dropping aid into flooded compound of a school in Pathum Thani

30. Mid of boat paddling towards floating bags

31. Wide of several boats in the school compound heading for the bags

32. Wide of another helicopter making food drop

33. Wide of flooded area

Thailand may still be fighting its epic battle to stop the floods swamping Bangkok but the waters have already inflicted serious damage on the country's economy, swallowing up entire industrial estates on the capital's outskirts and putting hundreds of thousands out of work.

On Monday, volunteers lost the fight to save an industrial park in the north of the city as authorities ordered a new evacuation in the area.

For more than 24 hours they had kept Nava Nakorn, the country's oldest industrial zone, from the flood.

Appeals had brought workers and more sandbags but still the water came through.

Nava Nakorn, in Pathum Thani outside Bangkok, has more than 200 factories, mainly electronics, many of them Japanese.

It employs more than 200-thousand people.

Not far away in Ayutthaya, the industrial base has been devastated.

Hundreds of factories have been submerged.

Japanese giant Honda has suspended production after its motor plant there was inundated.

So saving Nava Nakorn became almost symbolic of the determination of the economy to survive.

The Prime Minister herself on Sunday had pledged that the estate - established in 1971 - would be saved.

But by early afternoon on Monday it became clear the best efforts of thousands of workers and residents had failed.

The government ordered its immediate evacuation, changing at a stroke the note of optimism that had crept into official pronouncements in the last 24 hours.

The Flood Relief Operation Centre ordered all factories at the Nava Nakorn industrial estate to halt work and prepare their workers for evacuation.

The order was issued in a live television broadcast after water started to break through makeshift barriers erected the past few days.

"Right now there's been a change in the status of the particular area called Nava Nakorn," said Flood Relief Operation Centre spokesman Sean Boonpracong.

"We have immediately advised everyone to stop operating their machines and evacuate all the workers to a designated spot."

At least four other major industrial parks have been inundated, leaving tens of thousands of workers idle and disrupting supply chains, especially in the automotive and electronic industries.

Around the Nava Nakorn area, long lines of cars clogged up the roads as residents attempted to flee.

Another flood centre official said 200 buses and trucks were ready to take evacuated workers to emergency shelters, including a huge temple complex belonging to the Dhammakaya Buddhist sect that could house as many as five-thousand.

Meanwhile, efforts continued to get food supplies to flood-hit communities, cut off by flooded roads.

Across Pathum Thani, the Thai military dropped food packets from out of helicopters to various sites, including schools.

Local residents on boats paddled through the waters to make the pick up.

Thailand's Central Bank last week estimated that the total cost of the floods could be three (b) billion US dollars.

Over 300 people have died in the country so far, while more than 200 major highways and roads have been shut, along with the main rail lines to the north.