The shops and houses along the popular area of Orchard Road and a number of other areas in Singapore's beleaguered flood. Flood came because the water suddenly overflowed from a number of channels this afternoon, June 16, 2010. Heavy rain for two hours straight leaving puddles that soak the areas of trade and private homes in the City of Lions.
The national water agency PUB said, rainfall reached about 100 millimeters. The figure is 60 percent more rapidly than the average level of monthly rainfall during the month of June. Until now, the cause of flooding is still being investigated.
As quoted from the page of Straits Times, the ground floor of a shopping mall along Orchard Road under water. Water entering the shop damaging goods on display. Cluny Court on the ground floor, knee-high water to make 15 cars parked there had to be moved. The employees use a generator to pump water out.
This flood is deja vu for the shops on the basement floor of Lucky Plaza shopping center that flooded nearly every year. In addition to damaging their sales of products, some stores in the shopping center was also experiencing electrical disturbances.
At Liat Towers, the staff at the Wendy's fast food restaurant should evacuate the customers who were eating breakfast because the water suddenly burst into a restaurant. Puddles in the Wendy's reached waist-high adults. Floods also cause the customer fail to travel to places to eat. Restaurants Da Paolo Gastronomia which usually filled about 50 rooms, empty today until about noon.
Most people want to know what caused the flood that came suddenly this. A housewife named Shama Bano Khan said, "We've lived here for 15 years and have never seen an event like this. Shama lived in the three-story apartment and the water flooded the apartment next door."
The national water agency PUB said, rainfall reached about 100 millimeters. The figure is 60 percent more rapidly than the average level of monthly rainfall during the month of June. Until now, the cause of flooding is still being investigated.
As quoted from the page of Straits Times, the ground floor of a shopping mall along Orchard Road under water. Water entering the shop damaging goods on display. Cluny Court on the ground floor, knee-high water to make 15 cars parked there had to be moved. The employees use a generator to pump water out.
This flood is deja vu for the shops on the basement floor of Lucky Plaza shopping center that flooded nearly every year. In addition to damaging their sales of products, some stores in the shopping center was also experiencing electrical disturbances.
At Liat Towers, the staff at the Wendy's fast food restaurant should evacuate the customers who were eating breakfast because the water suddenly burst into a restaurant. Puddles in the Wendy's reached waist-high adults. Floods also cause the customer fail to travel to places to eat. Restaurants Da Paolo Gastronomia which usually filled about 50 rooms, empty today until about noon.
Most people want to know what caused the flood that came suddenly this. A housewife named Shama Bano Khan said, "We've lived here for 15 years and have never seen an event like this. Shama lived in the three-story apartment and the water flooded the apartment next door."