Friday, February 11, 2011

[WEEK 3] LOCAL NEWS: Floods at South Malaysia.

 Segamat town was one of the areas hit by floods today, following several days of heavy rain. Several residents used the rail tracks as a guide to navigate the flood waters. Pix by Mohd Yusni Ariffin

Due to the continuous heavy rain in the past few days, floods hit a few states in South Malaysia again on 1st of February. This time, it came at the very wrong time, while most of the Chinese is welcoming their Chinese New Year.

The Floods affected those who are staying in Johor Bahru, Segamat, Melaka, Kuantan and Seremban. They were forced to be involved and to face this critical situation. So far, there are around 4 millions of victims that had been evacuated. Unfortunately, 4 were killed.

Segamat was the most affected area. Its water level has reached 10 feet. Most of the main roads, railway and shop lots were flooded. In addition, there was neither supply of electricity nor water, the street then became empty and quite. There was even a lack of the Chinese New Year atmosphere.  Besides that, the Railway station services were interrupted due to the flood, the train line which travels from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and Kelantan were canceled. Therefore, those who were about to return to their hometown were forced to delay their trip. The deputy prime minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin described that this is an unusual phenomenon if it continues to rain, this disaster will probably exacerbate.


Fortunately, the water level had gone down and the rain has become lesser. I’m glad that the evacuation plan went well. Hundreds of relief centers that had set up at these states were giving a helping hand to those flood victims. Some of the victims stated that: It was blessed that this flood was not as serious as the one year 2006. Hopefully those who were involved will still enjoy celebrating this Chinese New Year with their love ones happily even it is a ‘wet Chinese new year’. 

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