So Orchard Raod is out of bounds today

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so... avoid it at all cost!


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and starbucks is gone!!!
 
holy crap!? There goes my caramel machiato
 
Date: 22 January 1999

Source: The New Paper
Why Orchard Road will never flood…
By Fong Foong Mei

Well, almost never.

For a flood to hit anywhere in Singapore, it takes a combination of high tides and about 100mm of rainfall within an hour.

And Orchard Road is protected by its mighty rain drain - the Stamford Canal.

Thanks to it, shoppers haven't had to slosh through waist-deep waters since 1960s.

But what makes a good drain?

According to a Ministry of Environment (ENV) spokesman, it's the flow capacity of a drain and not its storage capacity.

In other words, it isn't the size of the boat that matters, but the motion of the ocean.

And Orchard Road's supersucker had plenty of that.

It can empty an Olympic-sized pool before your cup of latte has time to cool.

It's very handy around this time, with La Nina is expected to bring about more wet days in the next two months.

La Nina is the weather phenomenon responsible for the heavier rains and cooler temperatures around the region.

Already, it has increased rainfall by 25 to 30 percent this year, noted a Meteorological Service spokesman.

Singapore's worst ever flood happened in 1978 when 512 mm fell in 24 hours.

Seven people died in that flood.

To prevent such disasters from recurring, the Government has spent some $1.1 billion since 1984 on about 800 km of drains all over Singapore.

How can you do your bit to avoid doing your shopping in sampans?

Simple. Just don't chuck your rubbish in the drains. Let the rain drains do their work, and go with the flow.
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Source: http://gsndev.org/archives/webs/sngs99/etc/Newspaper/Water/22-01-99.html

olololololol

I delight in the irony...
 
Damages might be high this time round, question what will be govt. response?
Heads will roll? Will they compensate the companies? Moar $$ down the drain? (Unless they say that the drainage system is normally adequate and this is a one-time incident.)

Then again not my place to discuss this kind of things, wait till tomorrow I guess

EDIT: Oh and the best part IMO. The mood meter poll on STOMP!
Enraged: 3%
Shiok!: 16%
LOL!: 63% <- EL OH EL
So sad: 9%
Sure or not?: 4%
Bochup: 5%
 
Lol just seemed like a really heavy rain over here in Fusionopolis, but certainly nothing on what's happening in Orchard road. That said the rain was so heavy that visibility was really bad this morning. Had a friend who went down to The Cathay further down during lunchtime though, seemed a-ok over there.

We've had some flooding a couple of years back when we had a particularly bad monsoon season. Highways flooded, motor accidents galore etc. Don't think any major work was done then. Then again this is the iconic shopping area getting shut down during the Great Singapore Sale, major reviews incoming. I pity the civil servants in the Ministry of the Environment and Water resources, probably won't be going home much in the next few days.

My take: No heads will roll, and certainly no companies are going to get damages from the government for what would be termed an act of God. Those companies had better be covered by good corporate insurance. :p

I think it's more telling how comfortable the country is in the responses I'm seeing to the flood. :p
 
chey! we are all like "wooohooo! something exciting finally!"

have to give it to us... for lack of sense of fear. LOL
 
Lol my first annual newsroom meeting:

Newsdesk Editor: "It's been a great year. Nicoll Highway, Huang Na, Body Parts murders and the Tsunami...."

They'll have a nice newsday with this anyway. :p
 
Mm my bus went past that area... Must've been before it started raining
 
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