Flash floods stain Singapore’s urban paradise reputation
July 18th, 2010 | 
Author: ABC News, 18 July 2010
Singaporeans were salvaging cars, soaked belongings and damaged goods on Sunday after a third flash flood in two months submerged low-lying areas of the city-state.
Shops and houses along posh Orchard Road were again hit by floods on Saturday after heavy rain overwhelmed the drainage system of the wealthy metropolis, which is often lauded for its excellent urban management.
The flooding took place just before parliament was to debate the issue on Monday following public clamour for explanations for earlier floods, which are normally associated with neighbouring capitals like Manila and Jakarta.
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The flood is regrettable.
PAP should sue ABC for using unapproved photos, just like how they handcuffed Wanbao’s reporter for taking pics.
PAP led gov’t should sue ARC news for defamation. Don’t they know we are rich and promoting waterfront living lifestyle throughout the country. ARC news please get your articles fact from reliable sources.
Think it will get flooder and flooderest in days to come…….
What’s new on this flood????? I think more will come. Go and read on the myth on why sudden rain and flash flood occured suddenly. You will have a shock of your life. Good luck Singapore.
All the properties affected in flood prone areas should be re-assessed to lower their valuation and to protect people from being conned into buying “flood prone” properties.
1st storey houses and shops should be well insured and hopefully the underground carparks can be redesigned.
Lucky Plaza and Liat Towers should also redesign their buildings to protect their basement shops owners.
Sue them !!! Sue them !!!! hahahaha
anything to do with the marina barrage?
Maybe we will get to see a swim-past this National Day : )
Wonder what our million-dollar ministers and our PM who are responsible for this fiasco will say this time?
Still learning what to do?
Caught unprepared again?
Flooding is not the gahmen’s fault and cannot be helped?
Too expensive to widen a few drains when they have no problem spending millions for the YOG and for Temasek to lose billons of our money?
Soon, we see cheap second hand ‘Typhoon ABC cars’ on sale due to flooded cabins and engines. Also houses and condos in those areas. Imagine it rains in Singapore one day every two months of 100mm…you change furniture 6 times a year…clean your house, lose your shoes, fishes, crabs, and end up with a softer ground for your houses. When U soak your trees in water for an undue period…they drop as their roots ease from the ground…try pulling your potted plants that are wet and those that are dry…the wet ones are out in a jiffy! U cannot count trees will not fall on houses next.
Floods are very destructive. Better check the ‘back pressure’ caused by the marina barrage…thats a most probable root cause. Do your simulation…and the results should show by itself…dun wait for the next destruction. We used to have worse monsoon rains…and this typhoon is too far away…in Filippines, moving to Vietnam…if it had not reached Sarawak, Sabah, Malaysia, Thailand…never will it be Singapore. We are always taught to solve problems at their root…go for it. Nobody is without error…make it good if there had been. Otherwise, the foreigners who own houses in these prime districts will start to move soon. How many times will they change their Lambourgini? Ferrari? LVs?
Debate? Come on such thing doesn’t exist in our parliament.
So, should we expect more “arrests” following Parliament? “Photographs of the floods in Singapore are Criminal Defamation to Singapore’s reputation!! All such photographs must be destroyed and Photographers imprisoned!”
seems the FTs are Peeing And Poo-ing more with so many now joining grassroots and peeing everywhere?
Flood, flooder, flooderer, flooderest, flooderestest…
Too bad nothing happened when I came in June. I must return to Singapore to wait for the next flood so I can grab all the branded items that are floating out of the luxury stores!
Arrested for taking pictures? Now that sounds like our neighbour up north (DPRK) kekek
They will push the blame to acts of good or freak flood, no one will be accountability. Or PM will ask Low Thia Khiang in a harsh tone if he would agree to sack the minister and then Low will just keep mum.
Weather forecast: there will be heavy rain and flash flood on 9 august 2010. Be prepared. Stay at home and do not go out through the day. The flood will be a seriousest (most serious) one once in 50 years. About one third of the area of the country will be submerged in water.
come on, let’s watch whatever is snip and cut from the debate tonight!! and kuodos to MICA Lui for planning to talk to Yakult privately. why got something to hide ah?
Our miliionaire ministers is academic competent, qualify for all kinds of gov.job but their performance is competitive incompetent,they behaved like headless chicken running without direction when problems occured. Many excuses and finger pointing to mother nature.
Rain rain rain go away, help our headless chickens.
I hope the Philipinos dun see this kind of news. We need that 100,000 more new foreign talents and workers to influx into singapore real soon.
Please, pls dun spread all these kinds of bad news, ABC!.
wow! this is the good time to start a sampan renting business….see there are so many opportunities in SINK..DEEP…POOR. Just think out of the box! haha
Shameful.
pls don’t worry , i think yakult will pray to haven 5 times a day from yesterday onwards ! maybe he also studying very very hard in the past few days just to learn about the rain pattern … he did that once in 50 years .
Just for laughs…..wonder what the pappies will say when they see this video!hahaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWnU9MYt5o
I strongly urge opposition party to contest area that affected by flash flood in coming GE. Let see what the results will be.
Told you already. PAP would not dare to hold elections this year.
Too many bad news. One day Yacaob the Minister said it happens once in fifty years, then the second flooding blame on some rubbish chogging the outlet drains into Stamford Canal, now said these rubbish is not the main fault. Let us see what he would say the next flooding occurs. What an inept Minister of Works, he thinks he gets million dollar pay so easy. He is ruining Singapore’s carefully cultivated image by his big, big boss, who in return ruin us with his pet Marina Barrage.
Vivian should be overjoyed by the flooding. Free swimming pool for the YOG athletes!!In fact, he and sway luck should swim down the stretch of Orchard river with the grassroots leaders!!It will be fun!!Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah!!
I cannot thank you enough for the post.Much thanks again.
HAHA .. luckily, no one drowned in those floods. think abt this bright side