Floods in Bt Timah

[exxondus]

Living in a developed country but experience like a third world country. This is gonna affect the property selling price in Bukit Timah.

affect or not also doesnt matter. property tax still gg up

sadz hor?

[Frogmen]

Living in a developed country but experience like a third world country. This is gonna affect the property selling price in Bukit Timah.

[exxondus]

wah liew!! watched news last night and they showed a bit of the basement area. it was belly belly bad sia!!

[louisoh]

Mr Warren Phee, owner of LanLab Online in Bukit Timah Shopping Centre's basement two, holds a florescent lamp in the darkness as he inspects the damage in his premises when the ceiling fell onto his computersDURING 2-1/2 hours on Thursday afternoon, almost half a month's worth of rain was dumped on central Singapore, most of which drained into the Bukit Timah Canal.

The canal burst its banks and knee-deep water brought traffic to a standstill along several stretches of Bukit Timah - Coronation Road to Third Avenue; Wilby Road to Blackmore Drive; and the Sixth Avenue junction.

The intense downpour - 110mm of rain between 12.50pm and 3.20pm - was more than the canal could empty into the Pandan reservoir. There were no reports of any serious incidents, but several vehicles stalled and a few were nearly fully submerged in underground carparks.

'The water level was so high my car was floating inside the carpark. My colleague had to swim in to push it out,' said Ms Pauline Tan, the owner of a silver Peugeot parked at the 6th Avenue Centre basement carpark.

Flood waters had subsided by 3.30pm.

[ohlins]

Wah seh! Heng today no class sia!

yeah go orchard gai gai lor

[nottinghill]

heh...yup... was at one of the exam centre at Bukit Timah today overseeing the afternoon paper.... i have to start the paper a little bit later cos there was a lot of 'missing' candidates in the exam hall.......

[Darkangel]

Wah seh! Heng today no class sia!

[exxondus]

19th Nov is today right?

or that article is for a previous day de?

[RTS]

Then today must be worse... Raining non-stop..

[louisoh]

Wow.. bros living near them jialat...



Nov 19, 2009
Flash floods in Bt Timah



HEAVY downpours caused flash floods in the Bukit Timah areas, with waters reaching knee-high in some places.

Traffic snarled along Bukit Timah and Dunearn Roads as cars slowed to a crawl to get through the flood waters.

Motorists said the Bukit Timah canal was overflowing, causing waters to rise to knee-high level in some areas.

Students who had sat for their A Level exams were stuck at bus-stops and in schools.

According to Stomper Martin, the flooding caused a major traffic jam on Bukit Timah and Dunearn Road sometime between 1 pm and 2.30pm.

He said he was stuck in his office at Sime Darby Centre during the heavy downpour and was late for a meeting because of it.

Singapore's weatherman has forecast that the wet spell will continue till January and flash floods are expected in low-lying and flood-prone areas including Chinatown, the Central Business District, Geylang, Lorong Buangkok and Tanjong Katong.

PUB, the national water agency, has said that heavy rain brought on by the north-east monsoon could coincide with 3m- to 3.2m-high tides, triggering flash floods over the next few months.

To quell the effects of the stormy spell, PUB has invested $59 million over the last 12 months to widen and deepen drainage networks, as well as raise the roads in 10 low-lying areas such as Cuscaden Road, Mountbatten Road and Commonwealth Avenue.

Since last month, the agency has advised 204 residents and businesses to store belongings on elevated ground and place sandbags at entrances to block flooding.