OMG you cannot believe this till everyone is uploading realtime photos. It originally looked like someone photoshopping and passing around funny photos and clips on the work email for entertaining bored office screen staring population but it's not.
I thought it was funny until when i realise it's Singapore Orchard Road that is flooded. Not funny anymore. ..
Flooded Major Road Junction
I then realise it's ION!!! OMG!
I wonder how are they going to get onto the bus.... hop into the water again!
so much for the patch of dry land
Tea time!
It's the eat dumpling day (ba4 zhang3) and dragon boating day.
Well-known blogger Mr Brown tweeted: “Someone call the Minister of Freak Incidents! Orchard Road flooding!” before posting a photo of a Lucky Plaza basement shop that was completely submerged.
Jovenaatheart tweeted:” It’s the Singaporean equivalent of a natural disaster.”
Yahoo! Singapore user Deb Siddiqi also commented, “I wouldn’t expect this to happen in Singapore, at the most famous road in town.”
The heavy rain caused major flooding at the Ion Orchard and Scotts Road junction, making the roads impassable to traffic. The rain was especially heavy over the Orchard Road and Rochor Road area, which were submerged in floodwaters of up to half a metre deep. Several shops near Wheelock Place like fast food outlet Wendy’s and luxury retailer Hermes were completely underwater.
Almost 400 Yahoo! Fit-to-Post users reacted with surprise and dismay in the 3 hours since this post was published.
Some like user EHF wondered about the poor drainage facilities along Orchard Road. He said, “Basically, no proper drainage system to go along with rapid buildings being built (sic). Relevant authories need to really look into present drainage system.”
Another FTP user KenluckyL added, “We should not think it is a freak accident but is the concern of the bad reconstruction of road works after building of the new mall — ION. LTA should send its team of specialists and exert to re-inspect the road.”
Yet others like Galleon and Peter questioned if climate change was to blame for the freak heavy downpour.
Besides Orchard Road, other parts of Singapore, including Coronation Road West, Fourth Avenue, Kings Road, Kheam Hock Road and Veerasamy Road were also affected, bringing traffic to a crawl.
The National Environment Agency, in a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, said almost 100 mm of rain fell within a two-hour period from about 9 am to 11 am. The Public Utilities Board also said the downpour accounted for over 60% of the total monthly rainfall for June.
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