Flash floods caused by heavy downpour on last Wednesday morning wreaked havoc on many parts of central Singapore, flooding basement car parks and shops, and making roads impassable to cars. The worst-hit area was the Orchard Road and Scotts Road intersection, with large stretches from Paterson Road. PUB, in a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, said almost 100 mm of rain fell within a two-hour period from about 9 am to 11 am. 'The amount of rainfall is approximately more than 60 per cent of the average monthly rainfall for June,' it said.
It is almost impossible to have floods, but this 1% or maybe 0.999% of flooding can still happen in Singapore. The government said that it is due to the drains that have too have rubbish in it, it cause the water unable to pass through, leading to floods. My thought is that we should do some precaution before things come worst. When the water level pass a limit, the department or the company of the buliding should do something about it. Hope such things will not happen again and this incident cause a traffic chaos as it is in the morning and many people have to rush to work, cars are also damage due to flood.
Huiyi
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