Floods return to Bukit Timah

myo539 · Nov 20, 2009

wizard said:
Shiok lah....

When I was i dunearn tech SS ( now NJC )during 1982-1986. When you have down pour. The slope will be a waterfall and the drain below it become a rapid river. You slide down the slop follow by the rapid then swim to the football pool.

No money can buy this kind of fun....

Now NJC. I dun think those fuckers dare to do such thing.

Adam road will be a swiming pool. You order your prata. sit on the table and put your foot on the chair which is same level as the water n eat it.

rain rain ....more rain and flood 6th ave and oxyley rise

I lagi siok. When I was in University in Bt Timah road, the field would be flooded and looked like padi-field. My friends and I went down to the field and planted padi. Three months later, we harvested it without the knowledge of the university authority. The law students there now only know how to eat basmati rice planted in India. hehehe

dysentry · Nov 20, 2009

why are rich people having all the fun?

Watchman · Nov 21, 2009

johnny333 · Nov 21, 2009

In China, it was believed that an emperor had lost their mandate from heaven when you had famine, floods,.....

With many unemployed(famine) Sporeans & now floods, what will be next :rolleyes:

singveld said:
pap have been very successful for years.

keeping flooding out.

they are to be commended.

what happen recently, mean that they have to improve on the drainage. and build bigger and wider drain.

with further investment, this problem can be solved.

i am sure pap can achieve this, one day.

diversifyx2 · Nov 21, 2009

Yacoooooob is not working again??No??

Frankiestine · Nov 21, 2009

diversifyx2 said:
Yacoooooob is not working again??No??

He is , he has decided to be a fortune teller and predict that this "freak event" will only occurs once in 50 years...

Watchman · Nov 21, 2009

Politician always cover themselves by saying it only happen 1 in 50 years or 1 in 1000 years as in Gordon Brown .

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diversifyx2 · Nov 21, 2009

Frankiestine said:
He is , he has decided to be a fortune teller and predict that this "freak event" will only occurs once in 50 years...

That is to say by next 50 years he would have mati liao, not his problem izzit??

makapaaa · Nov 21, 2009

myo539 said:
Are you a Malaysian? Your thinking can't be a Singaporean.

When Kota Tinggi was flooded till the rooftop, many ignorant kampong Malaysians said the flood was caused by land reclamation in Singapore which dammed up the Johor River.

One day someone will blame Singapore for causing forest fires in Sumatra.

It sure looks like u came from Msia and are infinitely 'grateful' to the BEST PAID but also most leegally corrupt and incompetent govt in the world.

makapaaa · Nov 21, 2009

chewed said:
obviously whatever PUB is doing is not good enuf. 59 million spent and it floods like as if Bukit Timah residents need Noah's Ark...

$59M go to paying the chor boh lan ministers and their scholar dogs with the rest going to their kaki contractor friends?

Watchman · Nov 21, 2009

Areopagus · Nov 21, 2009

I supppose the Kallang river has nothing to do with the Marina Barrage

jw5 · Nov 21, 2009

dysentry said:
why are rich people having all the fun?

I must admit that I enjoyed seeing some of those rich people wading in the water.

chewed · Nov 21, 2009

let's wait for the next rain storm to hit Sg and see bukit timah flooded again.

i'm sure Yaacob Ibrahim will say it's twice in 50 yr event then...

halsey02 · Nov 21, 2009

diversifyx2 said:
Yacoooooob is not working again??No??

Since you mention, is he in charge of NEA?...what happened to the Geylang Serai Temprary Market, Indian Rojak poisoning case?

Out of sight!, out of mind?:p

And the large number of rattus rattus they found? :rolleyes:

including rattus grassloots, rattus NEA, rattus pappies... ha ha ha ha

ruffles · Nov 21, 2009

chewed said:
let's wait for the next rain storm to hit Sg and see bukit timah flooded again.

i'm sure Yaacob Ibrahim will say it's twice in 50 yr event then...

It is already his second “freak” 1-in-50-years event! He used the same excuse in 2006..

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Channel NewsAsia
21 Dec 06
Businesses along East Coast suffering due to rain
By Valarie Tan

SINGAPORE: Dark skies continue to cloud over Singapore, keeping many at home and businesses in pain. A handful braved the rain but it is practically a ghost town at the East Coast hawker centre.

Shopowners say business is down some 70 percent since last Sunday. Abdul Malik, a drinks stall assistant, says: "We lowered the price of drinks by about 20 cents so people will come here to drink." Bicycle rentals also got hit, with only two or three customers a day.

The rain has not stopped the more adventurous from coming out to enjoy the great outdoors. But with their businesses left at the mercy of the weather, most shopowners are cutting their losses quick. Part-timers are sent home two to three hours earlier than usual and shops are closing their doors at least an hour early.

Some gyms across Singapore also saw a 10 percent drop in customers as most people go away for the holidays and some are kept at home due to the recent downpour.

PUB says the recent heavy rain caused excess water from the MacRitchie and Upper Seletar reservoirs to overflow. Reservoirs are designed to hold a certain amount of water, but when there is too much rain, excess water will still spill.

At Upper Seletar Reservoir, excess water was released into the sea by opening the tide gates.

Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Environment and Water Resources Minister, says: "You can't design for rainfall of this level, it is just too huge. The thing we can accept is that we can only design our canal of a certain size, and at the end of the day, we have to live with some of these occurrences which occur once in 50 years or so. I know it is inconvenient to some Singaporeans, but on the part of PUB and NEA, we'll do our best to alleviate the problem as quickly as possible."

The wet spell is likely to continue and NEA expects more flash floods in low-lying areas with high tides hitting 3.1 metres till Christmas Day.

The roads at the affected areas are back to normal and the spillage at MacRitchie Reservoir has ceased. - CNA/so

johnny333 · Nov 21, 2009

ruffles said:
Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Environment and Water Resources Minister, says: "You can't design for rainfall of this level, it is just too huge. The thing we can accept is that we can only design our canal of a certain size, and at the end of the day, we have to live with some of these occurrences which occur once in 50 years or so. ....

Seeing that its the MPs backyard thats effected I'm confident they will come up with a solution.

uncleyap · Nov 22, 2009

http://uncleyap.blogspot.com/2009/11/familee-leegimes-first-world-drainage.html



famiLEE LEEgime's FIRST WORLD Drainage Works

See to believe!

They had been bragging about it that Singapore will NEVER get a flood when their news reported about floods in Malaysia and other Asian cities. They said they had spent BILLIONS of tax dollars into World Class DRAINAGE WORKS. There is another recently completed http://www.pub.gov.sg/marina/Pages/default.aspx">Marina Barrage which squandered additional tons of tax dollars.

But it FLOODED indeed!

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My video shows the reality of conditions over the Bukit Timah Canal which flooded this week. Note the BIG TREE growing atop the PUB's high tension Electrical Cable Bridge over the canal.It is a reflection of how lack of care and maintenance and how UNSAFE it is as the famiLEE LEEgime's MILLION DOLLAR Ministers brag their First World Craps.

This video is taken at the same area as canal overflow and flooded.

Imagine the SAFETY of high tension power lines submerged in the water and people as well as vehicle passing through the water. First World indeed!

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On the right above the car, the tree is growing on top of steel support structure which bridge PUB's high tension power line over the Bukit Timah canal.

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/cna/20091120/tap-285-heavy-rain-causes-knee-high-floo-231650b.html">

posted by uncleyap at http://uncleyap.blogspot.com/2009/11/familee-leegimes-first-world-drainage.html" title="permanent link">7:16 AM

uncleyap · Nov 22, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

 famiLEE LEEgime's FIRST WORLD Drainage Works

See to believe!

They had been bragging about it that Singapore will NEVER get a flood when their news reported about floods in Malaysia and other Asian cities. They said they had spent BILLIONS of tax dollars into World Class DRAINAGE WORKS. There is another recently completed Marina Barrage which squandered additional tons of tax dollars.

But it FLOODED indeed!

My video shows the reality of conditions over the Bukit Timah Canal which flooded this week. Note the BIG TREE growing atop the PUB's high tension Electrical Cable Bridge over the canal.It is a reflection of how lack of care and maintenance and how UNSAFE it is as the famiLEE LEEgime's MILLION DOLLAR Ministers brag their First World Craps.

This video is taken at the same area as canal overflow and flooded.

Imagine the SAFETY of high tension power lines submerged in the water and people as well as vehicle passing through the water. First World indeed!

On the right above the car, the tree is growing on top of steel support structure which bridge PUB's high tension power line over the Bukit Timah canal.

CNA News Page

Heavy rain causes knee—high floods in Bukit Timah

<cite>Channel NewsAsia - <abbr class="timedate" title="Friday, November 20">Friday, November 20</abbr></cite>

<cite class="caption">Heavy rain causes knee—high floods in Bukit Timah</cite>

SINGAPORE: Heavy and intense rain caused flooding in some parts of Singapore in the early part of Thursday afternoon.

The situation was especially bad in Bukit Timah. At its peak, the flood waters reached knee level.

The affected areas were the stretches from Coronation Road to Third Avenue and from Wilby Road to Blackmore Road. The junction of Sixth Avenue with Bukit Timah Road was also flooded.

Traffic was brought to a standstill along some stretches of Bukit Timah Road.

MediaCorp’s news hotline received several calls from members of the public who said cars had trouble driving along these areas.

Parents who had sent their children for examinations at schools and junior colleges in the areas were also stuck in the floods. In some cases, water levels reached car windows.

PUB said 92mm of rain fell within half an hour from about 1.20pm—1.50pm. The total amount of rainfall was 110mm which is approximately 43% of the average monthly rainfall for November.

Thursday’s intense rainfall which was about six times that of a normal storm resulted in massive amounts of water — equivalent to the amount in 115 Olympic—sized pools — to drain into Bukit Timah 1st Diversion Canal, causing it to overflow.

The Bukit Timah 1st Diversion Canal which was completed in the early 1970s has been effective in preventing flooding in the Bukit Timah area, until the exceptionally intense storm on Thursday. PUB says it intends to upgrade this canal in the near future.

PUB officers were on site on Thursday to help out, using tankers to pump water out from two basement carparks as well as cleaning up houses that had been affected by flood waters.

PUB advises the public to exercise caution as flash floods may still occur in the event of heavy storms.

Weather reports are available at channelnewsasia’s weather page, as well as the NEA website at www.nea.gov.sg. You can also access the mobile weather service called Weather@SG available at weather.nea.gov.sg.

The latest weather reports, including heavy rain warnings, are also available over radio broadcasts or by calling NEA’s weather forecast hotline at 6542—7788.

You can also call PUB’s 24—hour Call Centre at 1800—284—6600 to report obstructions in drains or to check the flood situation.

— CNA/ir

ruffles · Nov 22, 2009

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