Thailand saw a frenzy of action Friday. Kidney failure patients 'd like to get in dialysis process can contact HSRI co. with NE Kidney Medico Free shuttle bus from Dusit Thani hotel to TU DOME available for donation stuffs logistic tomorrow Slippers -LRB- foam type -RRB- needed for any sizes at Don Muang Evacuation Cent. Both lanes of Bangkruy-Sainoi Rd... flooded With 283 people dead and another 8 million affected by the flooding, the fears were real in Bangkok. Workers stuffed sandbags furiously and shored up barriers. Evacuation centers began to fill with people. Banjong Palim, 43, said he had never seen anything like this in his lifetime. He was forced to flee when his suburban Bangkok home drowned. Some recalled the devastating 2004 tsunami that wiped out everything with walls of water. And panicked. Ed White watched the river flow over containment walls in Ayutthaya. He stacked the furniture as high as he could get it in his house in there, and felt lucky it was made of concrete and brick, not wood, like so many traditional Thai homes. White grew up in Ocean City, Maryland. He was used to hurricanes and the Atlantic's fury. But this was different. The water was not raging. There were n't torrents. It just kept inching upward. Slowly, but surely. At the market where White gets his hair cut, people scurried, spreading rumors born from fear. In two hours, they said,