Central Singapore Under Water 1

The rich of Singapore were hit hard, materially and physically , in the heart of Singapore. Apparently , technology and nature got into a tangle, the perfect storms as they said in the movies. A spokesman for PUB, not the place where the local unwind over a Tiger,Intense rain resulted in the equivalent of 115 Olympic-size pools of water being drained into the Bukit Timah 1st Diversion Canal - which separates Bukit Timah Road and Dunearn Road - causing it to overflow, said the PUB.

The heavy rain also affected many parts of the island. According to PUB, the total amount of rainfall at Bukit Timah Road was 110mm, which is approximately 43 per cent of the average monthly rainfall for November. It happens by design because Singapore,s canal were supposed to drain into the Marina Bay and then into the sea.
The rebuilt and enlarged drains in Bukit Timah or Tin Hill,the local name was designed to divert all excess flash flood into pipe linking the western
reservoir (Pandan Reservoir). It did it job for two years, and then the tide and the perfect timing and the monsoons soon put it to the test, it overwhelms the system when the division did not absorb enough away from the Canal. Thus the 115 size pools of water. In every month of April, the rain is very much welcomed as the farmers in India, but this time the goodness soaks and flood everything in sight and out of sight, including the BMW, the basement car parks and low lying lander properties. Most items were either soaking wet or under water, which means a lot of cleaning up by the housemaids. No weekend out this week.It was reported that some cars were floating around in the carpark.Some students had to sit their exams after the buses were late.In fact, never had a heavier rain falls in tropical Singapore for the last ten years. In local folkloar ,it mean raining cats and dogs and good fortunes and manna from heavens. Immediately, the local PR Governments declares the recession over. Thus there is some truth in the saying. It doe not rain but it pours. More good things are a-coming for Singapore.
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