154th Plays Down Little India Flooding!

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See the way it's being leeported. It's as if it's not flooded when water level actually reached 50 cm! FUCK THE INCOMPETENT and SLEEPING FAPEE TRAITOR MINISTERS!
Jun 17, 2010

LITTLE INDIA
Little India shops spared

Area is known for flash floods, so people there are prepared

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Veerasamy Road flooded in 2009. Following previous encounters with such weather conditions, staff at Tai Yong Electric Company - situated in Jalan Besar facing Veerasamy Road - now place their fans and other electronic items on platforms about 10cm off the shop floor. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO

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WATER levels in Veerasamy Road in Little India, reached as high as half a metre yesterday - but previous dealings with deluges have taught shop owners and drivers there to be ready for the worst.
'It's quite well known in this area that there can be flash floods,' said Staff Sergeant Adrian Aw, of Rochor Neighbourhood Police Centre, located at the junction of Veerasamy Road and Kampong Kapor Road.
Sergeant Aw added that drivers know they have to take a different route away from Veerasamy Road during heavy downpours.
As a result, no drivers were stranded and none had to be rescued, though parked cars in the area could not be moved for about an hour yesterday morning.
Veerasamy Road, Orchard Road and Bukit Timah Road were a few areas affected by yesterday's flash floods, which saw 100mm of rain bucket down over two hours - accounting for more than 60per cent of June's monthly average rainfall.
But Veerasamy Road shopkeepers fared much better than their Orchard counterparts.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
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[makapaaa]

My goodness,. The 154th can actually plays it down until like this! So are these running dogs telling Sporns that till somebody drowns, it's OK with flooding under the BEST PAID govt in the world?

Jun 17, 2010

BUKIT TIMAH
No repeat at Bt Timah

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ST PHOTOS: ONG WEE JIN, JOSEPH NAIR FOR THE STRAITS TIMES

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EFFICIENT flood gate management and a new water level sensor helped ensure that Bukit Timah was yesterday spared a repeat of last November's severe flooding.
While a section of the Orchard Road area was turned into a large pool, submerging shops and halting traffic, Bukit Timah only had small isolated areas covered by muddy water that had spilled over the Bukit Timah Canal walls.
This was in contrast to how Bukit Timah Road fared last November, when a rainstorm caused large portions of the area to flood.
The Public Utilities Board (PUB) attributed the lighter effects of yesterday's rain to the opening of a canal flood gate, which helped mitigate flooding in the area.
A new water level sensor installed in the canal after last November's flood also gave sufficient warning time, and allowed the PUB to send SMS alerts to the management of condominiums located in the area when the water level sensor reached 75 per cent at about 9.30am.
Still, parts of Dunearn and Stevens Road and areas such as the junction at the entrance of the National University of Singapore's law campus and Cluny Court, at the junction of Cluny Park Road and Bukit Timah Road, were affected.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of the Straits Times.http://www.straitstimes.com/PrimeNews/Story/STIStory_541453.html
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