The weather will determine whether there is a hasty rescue operation for the Thai football players locked up in a cave or that they can come out of their plight on foot. It is expected that within a few days, and certainly on Saturday, there will be so much rain in the Chiang Rai region that a tidal wave will flood the place where the boys find themselves. But if the tropical rain showers wait a little longer, the cave, from which water is pumped with all its might, falls so dry that the football players can escape on foot or floating with lifejackets.