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| x 0 x 0 Alert Admin | Sep 8, 2010Floods hit CBD, Little India  Heavy showers on Wednesday morning again caused flooding in Singapore, this time striking the Central Business District area. -- PHOTO: STOMPA HEAVY downpour lasting more than two hours in the late morning on Wednesday caused flash floods in several city areas. Worst-hit was Little India, around Jalan Besar, Rowell Road and Hindoo Road, where traffic snarled and businesses were affected. The water there was as high as 300mm, said national water agency PUB. At 300mm, water is about ankle-deep. The heart of the Central Business District (CBD) between North Bridge Road and Shenton Way was also flooded, although the waters there subsided within 20 minutes. Around 123mm of rain fell over Shenton Way and 103mm in Little India on Wednesday. During the Orchard Road floods of July 17, around 194mm of rain was dumped over the area in two hours. The National Environment Agency (NEA) had issued an alert earlier in the morning, but the flash floods still caught many motorists and businesses off guard. For Indian national tourist B. Singh, 34, who was tucking into a hot bowl of noodles in a food centre along Rowell Road, the floods reminded him of home: 'I've been here more than 20 days and this is the heaviest I've seen it rain. 'I'm very surprised. The road looks the same as any back home when a flood happens there.' Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times. 
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God is happy or sad? Maybe trying to punish Singapore for opening 2 casinos?
Flooding can be due to planning and development flaws? Will experts say that because we have too much underground structures built in reason years that deprived free flow of subterreanean water movements? That means congestion and therefore this pushes up the water level upwards when it rains? I think quite possible since we have so much new underground MRT tunnels and stations, roads, KPE and other construction works below ground.
| pharoah88      ( Date: 21-Jul-2010 13:55) Posted: 
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Ha ha, with small flood only. Recent Yangzijiang flood, killing of thousands, crisis not over yet. Wats more not safe in China, take a look below:
賓拉登說:中國是全球唯一絕對不能惹的國家!
Bin Laden said: China is the  only country in the world we absolutely cannot mess with
 
  
原因是這樣的:基地組織曾派出八名恐怖分子襲擊中國,結果如下:
The reason is this: al-Qaeda terrorists had made 8 attacks on the Chinese with the following results:
 
  
*一人在炸北京西直門立體交通橋時,在橋上迷了路;
 One person was to explode a bomb in Beijing Xizhimen (the main northwest gate of Beijing) but he lost his way in the three-dimensional traffic bridge;
  
  
 *一人在上海坐公車自殺炸彈時,擠了兩小時沒擠上車;
One person in Shanghai was to take a bus to explode a  suicide bomb in the bus, but it was socrowded he could not get into a bus for two hours;
  
  
 *一人在武漢炸超市時,炸彈遙控器被偷;
 One person was to bomb a supermarket in Wuhan, but found
 that the bomb remote control was stolen;
  
  
 *一人在炸成都政府大樓時,在門口被保安當作疆獨份子逮捕、狂揍、逼供;
 One person wanted to bomb government buildings in Chengdu, but was stopped at the door by the security staff and arrested as an East Turkistan separatist, and was beaten and interrogated;
  
 *一人成功地在河北炸礦,死傷數百人,潛回基地組織後,半年都沒見任何到有关新聞報
 導,遂被組織以"謊報戰果罪"報處決了(這個最可憐!);
 One person succeeded in bombing a Hebei mine, with hundreds of people dead and wounded, and then returned to the al-Qaeda center, but even after six months, failed to see any news reports on the success of the bombing ,he was considered by the organization to claim a false victory and was executed (this is the most pathetic!);
  
  
 *一人曾經嘗試炸廣州,結果剛一出火車站,炸藥包就給飛車黨搶了;
 One person had tried to bomb Guangzhou, but as he came off the train, a motorcycle robber (flying car robber) snatched his bag (containing the bomb) from him;
  
  
 *一人剛到西安就失聯,後來在醫院找到人,但卻是在昏迷當中,醫生說他不但吃到黑心食品,還喝到假酒,可能會成為植物人;
 One person who arrived in Xi'an lost contact, and was later found at the hospital in a state of coma.  Doctors said it was the result of him eating not only "black-hearted" food products, but he also drank fake alcohol, and would possibly turn into a "vegetable" (vegetative state);
  
  
 *後來,賓拉登改派一名女恐怖分子去炸海南島,結果竟然被騙去賣淫!
 Later, bin Laden tried to send a female terrorist to blow up Hainan Island, but she was cheated into prostitution!
  
  
 最後,賓拉登不得不說:記得!!中國是全球唯一絕對不能惹的國家!
 Finally, bin Laden have to say: Remember! ! China is the only country in the world we absolutely cannot mess with!
  
Happy raining,cold n windy Thu loh, cheers.
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only can claim insurance.... hopefully he is well insured
| pharoah88      ( Date: 21-Jul-2010 13:55) Posted: 
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ACT of GOD ? ? ? ?
DiD GOD plant this TREE ? ? ? ?
CLAIM against NEA ? ? ? ?
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UNBELIEVABLE
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|  | The incident happened along the junction of Thomson Hills Drive and Yio Chu Kang Road, a spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said.   | 
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| Laulan      ( Date: 20-Jul-2010 16:50) Posted: 
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Stay HDB still the best ! No basement flood problem !
Stay HDB la. No headache, only sometime got some unfriendly Ah Long visting neighbourhood like those weekend MPs, only start to appear when GE is coming!
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can CLAIM from employer compnay where owners [shareholders] are not there ? ? ? ?
PAID by AH KONG [sharehoulders] ? ? ? ?
| knightrider      ( Date: 21-Jul-2010 13:20) Posted: 
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Residents jittery over what the next storm will bring
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Some frustrated households at Gentle Reflections have moved to hotels and serviced apartments for $700 to $1,000 a night.
Some tenants, like Mr Adre Volschenk, have had enough. The South African plans to move out of the townhouses at Gentle Road, off Dunearn Road, once his lawyer settles the lease agreement. He has lost two cars and $15,000 worth of personal items when the flood waters came on Saturday. “I’m not comfortable living here. My family is traumatised. My maid almost drowned in this whole thing,” he said. Domestic helper Lalaine Suratos, 30, awoke that morning to find the basement filled with ankle-high water, which rose to her chest and kept rising. “I had to jump onto a chair to stay above the water,” she said. If not for Mr Volschenk, who pulled her to safety, the maid would have drowned in the rising waters. The 30-year-old Filipina was warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital after she complained of stomach cramps. She has since recovered.
The flood was the second in a month at the development. In the first, the waters rose to around knee height and Mr Faiek Peck is fed up with the landlord. He said: “If the owner isn’t prepared to do anything, we can’t risk going through this again.” He
But not all residents want out. Swiss national Frank Hemm would like to remain if the drainage issues are resolved, as his daughter attends a school in the vicinity. When contacted yesterday about the tenants’ concerns, a spokesman for the property’s management said it had “given enough help” to the residents.As it began to rain yesterday, the residents’ jitters were evident. Mr Volschenk put aside his cleaning at home and tended to the development’s underground drain, which was starting to fill up with rainwater. After 10 minutes of trying, the water pump finally kicked into life. Mr Volschenk said: “I’m just frustrated because between PUB and the management of Gentle Reflections, nobody seems to be committed to solving the obvious problem that we have over here”. 
            
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Dear Aloo, tks for the explanation on microburst. Learn new natural phenomenon. Better don walk along road side, after kena push to road centre n killed.
Ha ha, it may also attribute to the lately tragedies ie, newly wed man falling fr hotel rm n Chinese National woman fell to death in the swiming pool, as there were no reason spotted?
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CULPRIT would not admit FAULT
Find a SCAPEGOAT
Put a BLAME
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| alooloo      ( Date: 21-Jul-2010 11:19) Posted: 
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Btw learned new vocab from Singapore's side of explanation...
NParks chief executive Ng Lang said an intense microburst - a powerful descending column of air which produces damaging winds at high speed - had occurred in the area around that time.
Microburst - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst

I bet no one can beat their technical knowledge on knowing there is a microburst occurs at that point of time...
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