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Disaster Strikes! Flood & Blackout!!

Monday, 1st September 2008.

It was raining very heavy around 3pm in the afternoon!

A very unusual rain and it was so heavy the road down my house was flooded. Wow! It has been a while since I last saw this similar flood. This happens every heavy downpour…

My dad has to go out and check it out.. haha

The Toyota Unser stopped there for a while then it moves again.. haha
The road in front of my house is an uphill one. So the flood is only at the bottom and only about first 7-8 houses were affected with minimal damage to their front yard.

Picture taken from top and bottom of the slight slope…

We used to complain to MPK until now also we all fed-up already.
This is flood is due to the overflowing of monsoon drain along the main road.
But, not only this part of the main road was affected but as I heard, all around my “Taman” also affected with small flash floods.

The flood done its job by disrupting the traffic and many cars “died” because they tried to cross the flood area thinking that their vehicle can float on water! -_-

But some champions are really champions lah! I totally salute them! I just charge through the flood. I don’t even dare to do it.. mana tau die in the middle and all the water starts gushing in!

The highest water level is about my knee length! So the high!…

So… Like Father, Like Son. My brother and I go and check out too! Watch this video of the flood around my area. My brother and I were busy checking out the flood, taking picture and being a busy body.

During the heavy downpour, our electricity was cut off. Lucky it was raining and it was pretty cool in the day. There was no electricity from about 4pm onwards until god knows when. Because when I went to bed, about midnight, there was no electricity STILL!… I called TNB several times until I got so pissed off, I went to bed.

The irony of this blackout was that, along the whole stretch of houses on the same road, only about 9 houses were affected by this stupid blackout! Reason why is that our cable could be from a different sub-station! KNNCCB! Why like that? Kinda stupid right, we are all in the same township. The whole of Berkeley got electricity, but only a few houses doesn’t have? Weird!

Last time, we used to have candles only when there is blackout. So it was time for me to play candle back then. Putting them up in every possible corner of the house to light the whole area up. Walking around to make sure the candle is lit. Nowdays, we have all the portable emergency light which are rechargeable. Mom bought like a few of them for the use of the house. VERY HANDY I would say.

I can’t get online to finish my work, and that’s the whole reason why I am back to Klang is because I can online. Then, without electricity, that defeats the purpose of watching DVD which I bought earlier of the day, hoping that when the electricity comes back I can enjoy some kick ass movie! -_-

In the end, I entertained myself with my nephews’ toys. I AM SO SERIOUS! Play that “learning” computer thing and also with the helicopter I bought, which can fly when the string is pulled. Damn childish. I know!

Oh wells.. what’s the worst that can happen eh?