Lessons learned from Dec 18 floods

In front of each house, garbage and household items and furniture ruined by the floodwaters were piled up – some as high as a car. BERNAMApix: Exactly a week after the sudden and massive flooding on Dec 18, Taman Sri Nanding in Hulu Langat district – located about 20 kilometres from here – looked like it had been battered by a tsunami.

One of the residents Saiful Bahari Mohd Bahsari, 36, a postman, told Bernama this was the first time he had experienced such severe flooding which left his house in such a bad shape that he was at a loss as to how to go about cleaning it. “The residents were just not prepared for the floods . Almost all the households there lost their furniture, clothes and electrical gadgets as they were all damaged. In fact, people were even distributing women’s undergarments there... this is something that doesn’t happen on the east coast because the people there are usually well prepared to face the floods,” she said.

Meanwhile, following the recent floods, there has been a huge increase in the number of people visiting Met Malaysia’s website and social media accounts. He said the incident has taught him not to take things for granted and also gave him the opportunity to get closer to his neighbours, some of whom he had never met before.

Climatologist Professor Dr Fredolin Tangang, from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, told Bernama the number of floods occurring in Malaysia has been on the rise since 20 years ago, with losses amounting to over RM8 billion.

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