Mockngbrd Supersonic December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 Garment will said this flash flood is nothing when compared to Philippines, why complain. then we pay them same salary as filipino minister lor, dun complain ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jtay 1st Gear December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 They did not open the barrier went heavy downpour? I'm pretty sure they did. If not areas like city hall and shenton way which are nearer to the barrage would have been flooded too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman888 Moderator December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 Heavy down pour now, there goes all the x'mas shopping crowd, business is bad this year! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahtong 1st Gear December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 Try selling umbrellas and phua chu kang boots Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimnfire 4th Gear December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 these pass few days high tide is more than 2.9m if it rains during high tide...oh boy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albeniz Turbocharged December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 After the first public announcement of "flood once 50 years" (in 2010?), they came up with the brilliant water barricade idea which was implemented outside Starbucks and Wendys at Orchard Road. And I remember there were alot of news publicity on this implementation. IT DID NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM, and got worse. This time round, they had to line chairs up and walk on the chairs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosaka 1st Gear December 24, 2011 Share December 24, 2011 After the first public announcement of "flood once 50 years" (in 2010?), they came up with the brilliant water barricade idea which was implemented outside Starbucks and Wendys at Orchard Road. And I remember there were alot of news publicity on this implementation. IT DID NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM, and got worse. This time round, they had to line chairs up and walk on the chairs. Self- PWNED!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade777 5th Gear December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 After so many years and so many floods and so many shops kana. Can they improve the drainage or not ????? Apparently, drainage not good enough. Next year will have another flood if nothing is done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timon 1st Gear December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 Improve the drainage may not solve the problem totally if the water continue to trap within the Marina Barrage. PUB said that they opened the 8 gates to maintain the water level, so what? If the rain collected and flow-into are greater than the amount the 8 gates can discharge during the critical period (when Orchard had 152.8mm of rainfall). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bystander50 5th Gear December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 After so many years and so many floods and so many shops kana. Can they improve the drainage or not ????? Apparently, drainage not good enough. Next year will have another flood if nothing is done. In the past before 313 was built, there's a large canel running below the then Specialist Shopping Center and Somerset MRT/Open air carpark. When exposed, the canel is able to collect more water from the rain and back then Marina Barrage wasn't built yet, so we never hear of Orchard Road flooding. With the million or billion dollar spent on the Marina Barrage, asking them to admit it's a design flaw or a flaw in the conceptual idea would cost them politically, so the only way is to blame the weather. What's the point of getting these ang mor external consultants to do the evaluations, these people will just want to collect the $ and scot off like those fly by night contractors. Somehow I highly suspect the damming of Marina Barrage has more to do with Feng Shui than other reasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonTan 2nd Gear December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 Good thing that all over the world also got flooding.....JB, KL, BKK, etc. Authorities can conveniently blamed it on the weather change. No engineering can avoid the world weather change! Phew....Siam the responsibility. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XALmoN Neutral Newbie December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 Good thing that all over the world also got flooding.....JB, KL, BKK, etc. Authorities can conveniently blamed it on the weather change. No engineering can avoid the world weather change! Phew....Siam the responsibility. lol at a lawyer's words. proves that he knows s--t f**k all. along civilisation's history, its always been the engineers and engineering that has overcome the problems presented by the environment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_Force Neutral Newbie December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 priest lah it is to prevent flooding of the main road who cares about the shops? Haiz, end of the day the blame will be on the building la....all they have to say is design or construction fault which the building should have consider lol...but who approved in the 1st place?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fcw75 Hypersonic December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 Not they don't called it Flooding anymore, they called it Ponding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanhangkiang 3rd Gear December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 If the root cause is not identified or wrongly identified, will the flood be a recurrence issue annually? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fcw75 Hypersonic December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 Flooding is an act of god. How abt Ponding? Act of mismanagement? Can claim insurance then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XALmoN Neutral Newbie December 25, 2011 Share December 25, 2011 how can i like this post? ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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