PUB explains flash floods

[Oppsgal]

land = money?

[starlight1968sg]

Orchard flood anniversary ?

[Daddy D]

http://www.asiaone.com/static/multimedia/gallery/110605_floods/


This one lagi best.... luxury sportscars all washed out in Orchard Road (St Regis Residences).... good luck to those rich expats...
:imdrowning: :imdrowning: :imdrowning:

[starlight1968sg]

Daddy

http://www.asiaone.com/static/multimedia/gallery/110605_floods/


This one lagi best.... luxury sportscars all washed out in Orchard Road (St Regis Residences).... good luck to those rich expats...
:imdrowning: :imdrowning: :imdrowning:

Does car insurance cover this type of incident?

[Daddy D]

starlight1968sg:

Daddy

http://www.asiaone.com/static/multimedia/gallery/110605_floods/


This one lagi best.... luxury sportscars all washed out in Orchard Road (St Regis Residences).... good luck to those rich expats...
:imdrowning: :imdrowning: :imdrowning:

Does car insurance cover this type of incident?

I think after the last incident NTUC came up with flood coverage....

But heck lah... these people are filthy rich anyway...
\"Luxury sports cars like a Lamborghini, an Aston Martin, a Ferrari, a Porsche and an Alfa Romeo with several BMWs and Audis at the St Regis Residences were up to their wheels in water.\"

[SAHM_TAN]

If gvt cannot solve flooding problem, does it mean buidling design will have to change to accomodate flooding? No more carparks in basement? The first level of shelves space must be empty to prepare for flood?

[Jennifer]

SAHM_TAN:

If gvt cannot solve flooding problem, does it mean buidling design will have to change to accomodate flooding? No more carparks in basement? The first level of shelves space must be empty to prepare for flood?

Bldg developers were too ambitious to build basement carparks/shopping belt along the whole stretch of Orchard Road, leaving less soil space to take up rainwater.

The respective authority in charge of land planning/drainage will only start thinking harder when the floods hit our VVIP's residences., like Oxley Rd n Namly Rd.

[kwokwc]

Daddy

kwokwc:

I remember when I was in secondary school, Sec 1, my school is in Bukit Timah and flood occur quite frequently. However, when they finish some drainage work, flood no longer occur, that is when I was in Sec 2. It is more than 20yrs there is no flood in Bukit Timah. 20yrs plus later, it starts to flood again.


Today, I passed by Bukit Timah, just wondering if it is the downline line that cause the flood again. Sometimes I wonder, tax payer pay so much, but the people who do all the planning never plan properly and study properly so instead of solving problem, it create another problem.

Exactly my thoughts/experience... don't tell me we're schoolmates? :?
Remember once during flood, we walked from Bukit Timah to MacRitchie in order to take bus home...

Haha, not sure about that.

The most 'memorable' is on the last day of exam, heavy downpour. Got to walk another path into school from Bukit Timah. Lucky got senior to lead the way, if not don't even know how to get to school. The paper is postpone to a later time too, as the teachers can't get to school as well. :lol:

After the paper, walked all the way to holland to catch a bus to Orchard to watch movie for celebration. :lol:

After that 'bad flood', studied there for 6 yr, never really got any flood again. Really can't imagine that this can happen again, 20yrs plus later. :scratchhead:

[Daddy D]

kwokwc:

Haha, not sure about that.

orh... u wear skirt one... I wear shorts one... haha!

[verykiasu2010]

as I said before, all the talk about weather change causing the flood is rubbish


see the data : the greatest rainfall in month of June for the past 142 years was in the year 1954, not 2010 nor 2011

http://app2.nea.gov.sg/weather_statistics.aspx

http://sg.pagenation.com/?m=1954

and the greatest flood since 1934 was in 10th December 1954, not June 1954

http://sg.pagenation.com/?tag=flood

the greatest amount of single day rainfall in June happened on 5th June 1984

and no flood was even reported like in 5th June 2011

http://sg.pagenation.com/?m=1984

so, all the rainfall is nothing abnormal, only the flood is abnormal, so please don't blame the weather and don't blame the sky. weather change is not an overnite happening.