Flood waters strand cars along Upper Thomson Road
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Flood waters strand cars along Upper Thomson Road
STOMPer urchina_sg snapped these dramatic pictures of flooding along Upper Thomson Road, after heavy rains drenched the island yesterday evening (Oct 31).
urchina_sg describes the scene:
"This evening at around 6:30 pm, we were having our dinner along Upper Thomson Road, off Jalan Todak.
"We witnessed flooding in the area caused by the heavy downpour. Within 10 minutes, cars parked along the service road were half submerged.
"Car owners nearby rushed to move out their vehicles, but others were not so lucky.
"The nearby big drain was also overflowing. Some people stood nearby to warn road users of the danger posed by the flooded drain.
"I heard from the shop owners that PUB is going to improve the service road and the surrounding drainage in early November.
"I pity the cars owners who need to spend money to get their cars working again."Click on thumbnails for larger image
__________________________________________Effectiveness of marina barage and sg flood ctrl measures in doubt -
Should check out Kuala Lumpurs flood mitigation project, in severe storms the underground car tunnels are used as drains to channel the flood waters.
http://www.thinkdeep.nl/documents/Presentations/Abraham%20ppt.pdf
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shit man...those cars in the pics are goners. Water in the exhaust, engine and chassis.
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There's so much rubbish in those drains sometimes that it can't help. The swivel chair in the centre of the first page managed to drift a few metres away from that spot, but the SUV should be alright.
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these are exciting time
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end of the world is coming
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Cars may not work, but KUBs are still running!!! Hurray 4 buses!
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Originally posted by TownLink 291:
Cars may not work, but KUBs are still running!!! Hurray 4 buses!
KUB big ah...crash into tree see how, EDS gone case and air con fully destroyed.....
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Originally posted by TownLink 291:
Cars may not work, but KUBs are still running!!! Hurray 4 buses!
The main road was not flooded.
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How come ERP gantry never crash to the ground because of the flood?
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rarely here happens.
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omfg, swimming pool
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wud is dat aunty doing? mopping a flood?
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i been there a few times before. the coffee shop nearby there smells like crap.
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Originally posted by Sgforum King:
i been there a few times before. the coffee shop nearby there smells like crap.
Maybe its because of the flood
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that means the drainage there is almost non existent in a heavy rain.
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the council there should do something about building a drainage system. if not everytime there is a heavy rain, there will be flooding. nov and dec is a period of monsoon season, so expect flooding in that area during this period.
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Originally posted by TownLink 291:
Maybe its because of the flood
before the flood already smells like crap. now i dunno i nv go
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nice flood.
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Originally posted by SBS n SMRT:
nice flood.
Lol. Then the phillipines one is wad flood ah?
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Originally posted by TownLink 291:
Lol. Then the phillipines one is wad flood ah?
garbage flood
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Originally posted by TownLink 291:
Lol. Then the phillipines one is wad flood ah?
super (X333000) flood =)
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As a result, two stretches of Bukit Timah Road - from Coronation Road to Third Avenue and from Wilby Road to Blackmore Drive - were under water in one of the worst floods in recent years.
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THE waters took the basement carpark of the 6th Avenue Centre by stealth.
By the time Ms Pauline Tan, 30, went to check on her brand new Peugeot 308, the 1,400kg car was half-submerged - but floating, with its roof close to kissing the roof of the carpark.
Its windows were wound up, but water had entered it all the same, reaching the seats inside.
A colleague of the co-owner of a cafe in the building came to her aid - by swimming into the chest-high waters and guiding the gently bobbing car towards the carpark exit in 20 minutes.
Ms Tan, visibly vexed, said: 'We have a motorcycle in there, but we don't know where it is exactly.'
Three other vehicles and the motorcycle parked in the carpark were still submerged when The Straits Times dropped by yesterday at 6pm.
The flooding disrupted telecommunications transmission equipment installed in the basement carpark, cutting off telephone lines in the building.
Contractors for both the PUB and SingTel were trying to pump the water out in the evening.
Another basement carpark along Bukit Timah Road, the one in The Tessarina condominium, was also flooded.================================
The intense downpour - 110mm of rain between 12.50pm and 3.20pm - was more than the canal could empty into the Pandan reservoir. There were no reports of any serious incidents, but several vehicles stalled and a few were nearly fully submerged in underground carparks.
'The water level was so high my car was floating inside the carpark. My colleague had to swim in to push it out,' said Ms Pauline Tan, the owner of a silver Peugeot parked at the 6th Avenue Centre basement carpark.http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2009/11/heavy-rain-causes-knee-high-floods-in.html
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So park at your own risk at those places.
You car will end up a boat or submarine after a heavy downpour.
Wonder why such things happen since we have many scholars in the government, because they were busy lining their pockets with million dollar salaries, they forgot about Singapore.