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The once-in-50-years Orchard floods happened again, just when we're about to celebrate the 1st year anniversary of the epic June 16 floods in 2010.
To be fair, the amount of rainfall recorded today, was even heavier than on June 16 last year. And the disaster duration didn't last as long as last year's. But I guess the 2010 excuse of fallen leaves that choked the canals cannot be used again.
I was in the heart of the disaster area this morning. The waters began rising fast at 11am. At that time, I was still having my weekly Japanese lesson.
At 11:05am, the security guard dashed into our class, shouting "Mdm! Remove your car! B1, B2 and B3 all flooded!"
My sensei rushed out, telling us "gohun gohun!" (5 minutes, 5 minutes!). By the time the lesson ended at 1130am, she was still not back. Apparently, her car was in B2, which really had much trouble coming up, as it was a massive jam in the basement carpark.
At 1130am, I left the classroom, and headed to the nearest window on the 5th storey. Even the ground level was flooded. The muddy water level on the tarred road, was already almost shin-level. In a way, we were stranded in the building, because not many would want to step outside into the brown waters at shin-level voluntarily. But there was one thing everyone could do -- whip out their phones and start snapping photos away.
Thankfully, the waters subsided quite fast after a while. Not totally, but it was much easier to walk after that. I headed to the nearest bus stop, boarded a bus, and watched the action from a comfortable seat inside.
人生是黑白的.
10:46 PM <3
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The once-in-50-years Orchard floods happened again, just when we're about to celebrate the 1st year anniversary of the epic June 16 floods in 2010.