SHAH ALAM, 15 Nov – A large number of
vehicles were damaged in a flood that occurred at Seksyen 7 here, today.
Residents of Pusat Komersial Seksyen 7
where most of them are students woke up in shock after finding their cars
half-submerged in flood water.
According to one of the car owner and
resident Mohamad Izzat Anuar, 23 said that the flood was unexpected and very
damaging.
“I have lived here for almost three
years and I don’t think that this had ever happened before.”
My car was submerged up until the car seat and
It also cost me around RM2000 to get my car up and running again which as a
student, was a burden,” he added.
Apparently the authorities did give
out warnings to car owners about the incoming flood but it was done at such an
inconvenient hour.
“I was asleep and slightly awoken by
the warnings but I was too sleepy to pick up what was said and went back to
sleep,” said a resident, Shafiqah Shaharudin, 23.
For those who were awake, they chose
to ignore the warning because they did not think it was urgent enough.
“It was four in the morning and I was
still awake doing my assignments when I barely heard the warning. They only
said to ‘move your vehicles’ without saying why.”
“At such an hour, many were sound
asleep and did not hear the warning,” said Ameen Azizul, a resident of Pusat
Komersial.
Ameen,
23 also added that the authorities could have carried out a more thorough and
specified warning system such as going from block to block, ensuring everyone
knows about it.
“They
could also have said that there was a flood coming so that the warning could
have been taken seriously and residents not hesitating or ignoring the
seemingly unimportant warning,” added Ameen.
The
flood covered almost the entire area of Shah Alam’s Seksyen 7 with views such
as lake water spilling out onto the jogging track apart from submerged
vehicles.
It
is unknown whether the flood was a result of poor sewage management by the
authorities or happened due to unusually heavy rain that night.
