A crane stacks giant sandbags to form a wall....Bangkok's protection from floodwaters that keep edging closer.
Life preservers and rubber shoes are for sale downtown, where businesses are surrounded by sandbags five feet high.
Peak tides this weekend didn't breach the capital's barriers, but the government is still racing to keep a deluge from soaking the country's economic engine.
Bangkok's 12 million residents account for more than 40 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
Near the city's border with the suburbs, shoppers wade through water in a market flooded for the second day.
And in a district of northern Bangkok -- Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra boards a boat to travel through waist-high water.
She throws disinfectant balls into the water and hands out relief items to residents.
At least 427 people have died since flooding began in July.
Katharine Jackson, Reuters.