Flash flood

May 9th, 2007 at 16:13 · Filed Under At Home, Critiques, Days in My Life, Dietrich, Dmitry, Dominik, Family 

Last night and this morning were unusually humid and hot. After sending D to school, it began to rain heavily. After LA and kids finished their lunch, LA noticed the water level had risen. She alerted me and quickly we started to move stuff on the floor. Another inch the water would have enter the house at the car porch. Some water had enter from the rear entrance and the rear bathroom was already flooded. Dead cockroaches were floating in the water. An awful sight, but D and N were excited.

Thanks grandma and uncle BS for coming to help.

It was about 4 years ago when the last flood came. D was still a baby. So this was the second time for D and first time for Rich and Nik.

We are all fine and in good health and at this moment as I am writing this post, the water has subsided and we have cleaned up all the mess. No losses of property.

This is the 5th time our area was flooded. Can you imagine how the hell can Bukit Beruang (our area is supposed on the high ground!) get flooded? This area has been heavily developed with more houses and high rise apartments. Tress have been chopped down. When the city council approved the plan for development, their oversight on irrigation systems has caused this inconveniences. What a GREAT! job they have done! Despite of previous floods, nothing has been done to improve the irrigation system. So incompetence and ignorant.

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4 Responses to “Flash flood”

  • 潜龙在天 on May 9th, 2007 16:55 1

    It is good to hear that all of you are safe and sound. Take care.

  • 千里走单骑 on May 9th, 2007 17:55 2

    Wow, such heavy rain, was extremely opposite to the super hot weather yesterday. My residential area is quite high, so no flood happened here. However my room’s roof has leaked along the wall, but it wasn’t too serious, now the wall has turned dry and left only lines of water trail.
    Anyway, glad to know that you and your family are safe from the flood. I like the photo, somehow I get nostalgic seeing it, it reminds me of my childhood when there were floods (like D and N, my brother and I were excited too :P ).
    Oh, miss home so much~

  • ridzuan on May 12th, 2007 1:05 3

    That reminds me when I was a small kid at my “Kampong”. It is a common restrospection for most Malaysia-grown kids. Thank God you and your family are fine and no damage to your house.

    I read from the news that this flood was not as bad as the one last December.

    Take care my dear friend. I will pray for all of you and others.

  • Adrian Hoe on May 16th, 2007 12:07 4

    I read from the newspaper the next day. Our Chief Minister was at various flood sites to inspect the condition. At one of the site at MITC (very near to our home), he asked some personnel to show him the irrigation plans of that area. None of them were able to produce the plans. What incompetence these government servants are. Why are they still on the payroll of tax payers money? They should be fired!

    There was compensation from the state government after the last flood. It happened just a few months before the last general election.

    This time, there is no compensation because the general election is still “far away” but everybody knows that the election could be around the corner.

    Is this how our government buy their votes? Why do they not take care of the “rakyat”? People had to take leave to come home to attend to the emergency.

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