Rain,rain go away

Everytime i hear rain drops on the roof, i can get a shiver.. especially when i am in bed trying to sleep.
No matter a light drizzle or heavy thunderstorm, i wonder if kuching will be flooded,
you see, I was involved in the Floods Operation Room in Kuching for 5 years... no matter how much you prepare, how you plan, during times of chaos, the important thing is a clear mind and not to be intimidated by the situation... be in control...

that was before i read this...

2007/11/16 NST
EDITORIAL: Stormy traffic

TUESDAY'S closure of the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel, or Smart, may have solved one major problem for Kuala Lumpur, but another was left in its wake.
The Department of Drainage and Irrigation, overseers of the project, contends that the Smart system virtually saved the city from getting flooded, and that if it weren't for the closure of the tunnel to channel excess rainwater away from the city, Dataran Merdeka would have come under water that evening. The flip side, though, is that the closure of the dual-purpose tunnel and the massive downpour worsened the city's infamous traffic congestion to near standstill. Still a small price to pay, perhaps, considering what could have happened, though a clear picture of how well the RM2 billion tunnel system performed in its first real-world test since coming online four months ago has yet to emerge.There are, in the meantime, some obvious lessons that can be learned from what has happened. Many who got stuck on the city's roads on Tuesday evening were either unaware or realised too late that they had driven right into areas that were in imminent danger of getting flooded. A more timely and effective heads-up could have been useful to divert motorists where possible. Traffic near Smart's Sungai Besi entrance also remained at an unusually slow crawl on Wednesday. Again, the reason was that many were unaware that the tunnel was still closed to traffic, as authorities needed more time to determine if it would be safe to re-open the tunnel to vehicles.
What Tuesday's incident reinforced, in other words, was that preparedness and prevention of floods in Kuala Lumpur require setting up and maintaining smooth and effective channels not just for excess rainwater, but information as well.Designed to be part of a flood-mitigation system for Kuala Lumpur that could also provide an alternative route and bypass for motorists, the Smart system was never meant to be a magic bullet for traffic congestion. The last time Kuala Lumpur got hit with as much rain was just five months ago, and parts of the city ended up flooded as a result. That the city did not suffer as badly last Tuesday is at least a hopeful sign that we could be at last getting on top of Kuala Lumpur's notorious flash floods. In which case, all we would need to do is find a way to overcome that other remaining perennial problem in the city - its infamous rush-hour traffic crawls.

http://www.smarttunnel.com.my/

No matter what you do, it is never enough... the best is you delay the problem and create another problem...

by the way, my car was submerged under 9 feet of water at where esle..Bau New Police Station(2003-declared open just three weeks before).....