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A torrential downpour that lasted several hours early on Sunday morning triggered flash floods across several parts of the island.
Senett Estate, Potong Pasir, MacPherson, Toa Payoh, Bukit Timah and Orchard were the areas hardest hit by the floods.
Two lanes along Bukit Timah Road near Cuscaden and Hillcrest Road were completely impassable to traffic at one stage. So too was the Kranji Expressway (KJE) at the slip road towards Woodlands.
Micro-blogging platform Twitter was awash with tweets about the flash floods( #sgfloods).
Ex-model and VJ Nadya Hutagalung (@Nadya_HutaGalng) tweeted, "Eng Neo avenue flooded!"
Another Twitter user Akmal Hadi (@Athrun988) tweeted, "Singapore is gonna be another Venice at the year end monsoon season if the government's not gonna do anything about it soon."
Another user, Jacqui T(@jacquilah) tweeted, "First world nation with third world drainage system. Wonderful."
Charlotte Ong (@onglette) also posted a series of pictures of Tanglin Mall flooding and tweeted, "Check out the waterfall in the shopping centre" and "First level flood pouring down to basement."
Several netizens also urged new Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to put resolving the flood issue top of his list.
Yahoo! Fit-to-Post reader, Rio, wrote, "Hope everyone will take precaution during the flood.Can't bear to read another death because of this... Dr Vivian should put this issue on top of his list and solve this."
Senett Estate, Potong Pasir, MacPherson, Toa Payoh, Bukit Timah and Orchard were the areas hardest hit by the floods.
Two lanes along Bukit Timah Road near Cuscaden and Hillcrest Road were completely impassable to traffic at one stage. So too was the Kranji Expressway (KJE) at the slip road towards Woodlands.
Micro-blogging platform Twitter was awash with tweets about the flash floods( #sgfloods).
Ex-model and VJ Nadya Hutagalung (@Nadya_HutaGalng) tweeted, "Eng Neo avenue flooded!"
Another Twitter user Akmal Hadi (@Athrun988) tweeted, "Singapore is gonna be another Venice at the year end monsoon season if the government's not gonna do anything about it soon."
Another user, Jacqui T(@jacquilah) tweeted, "First world nation with third world drainage system. Wonderful."
Charlotte Ong (@onglette) also posted a series of pictures of Tanglin Mall flooding and tweeted, "Check out the waterfall in the shopping centre" and "First level flood pouring down to basement."
Several netizens also urged new Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to put resolving the flood issue top of his list.
Yahoo! Fit-to-Post reader, Rio, wrote, "Hope everyone will take precaution during the flood.Can't bear to read another death because of this... Dr Vivian should put this issue on top of his list and solve this."
