Situation almost back to normal
Kota Tinggi electricity restored
The next few days residents in the flood-affected districts will find their hands full trying to revert to the status quo prior to the floods. Ruined furniture, mattresses, foodstuff etc have to discarded. ‘Cleaning-up’ has to be carried out. Government staff will be busy for the next month at least trying to get at least some semblance of order back into the streets.
For the elderly and single people living alone, times will be particularly difficult, having to handle all these work and stress alone. Counseling of course is the best remedy but that is not an option in Malaysia. Financially, it is not known when the individual, the businessman, the corporate entity or the state will be able to recover. The loss involved is staggering.
Certain businesses will recover faster than others. The government will have to do a post-analysis and see how it could have improved its performance in a crisis like this. Were there any other factors involved other than the blamed typhoon?
How was drainage in these affected areas? Can the situation be improved so that if this happens again, the loss will not be so significant or devastating.
The government, banks and other financial institutions will have to come up with some kind of scheme to help all these businesses that are trying to recover from their losses. Rescheduling of loans? Extended repayment period? Revised borrowing criteria requirements?
However I believe in the resilience of all Malaysians. Malaysia Boleh! Hopefully this flood will go down in history as the last big flood and no more such floods in future.
Every body must chip in to help their relative, friends and neighbours who are facing this time of crisis. Donate some money. Just be grateful that you were not one of them. There are many channels to donate money : NST, Mercy Malaysia and now Celcom to name just a few. Be generous.
Meanwhile, sighs of relief are being heard all over Malaysia especially in the south after the situation has improved almost to normal in some districts. Johor’s situation has improved with all evacuation centers in Johor Baru closed.
evacuees in Pekan – 1136
evacuees in Muar – 20412
evacuees in Batu Pahat – 24,816
There are 227 relief centers still open in Johor with a total of 59,306 registered evacuees.
Death toll : 8
Meanwhile TNB is doing everything it can to restore power in all affected districts.The substations that remain offline are in Johor (295), Malacca (14) and Pahang (8).
The substations shut down in Johor are
Johor Baru (2)
Kota Tinggi (24)
Muar (152)
Segamat (40)
Kluang (2),
Batu Pahat (74)
Mersing (1).
Residents in Kota Tinggi were relieved after electricity was restored at 11pm Sunday night. Prior to this this, some thought it would take months.
Areas still on alert
Long queues for much needed water
Segamat folk still isolated
Jelas.info
Flood victims told to report losses to police immediately
Taipeitimes
Gulf News
Jabatan Kajicuaca Malaysia
Royal Malaysian Police Website
1300 Updates
Rain till the weekend for some states
Number of evacuees in Johor continue to drop
Another flood alert
1500
Second wave of floods hit Johor Baru. Relief centers reopen
Red stage warning for Johor and South east Pahang
2100
Affected schools to receive aid & schools to reopen as scheduled
Disaster management policy being formulated
every one should donate…if you are here, you will see the effects
I will be going to Johor to see the recovery of the flood situation with my own eyes soon. I hope the government and respective authorities have really helped the people in the affected areas. I hope I can offer my own insight on the situation. Let’s see how this goes.
I also have to say that blaming nature is like blaming God, and such a thing does not allow ourselves to become proactive people, instead it makes us fatalists. And indirectly blaming God doesn’t do any good.
Loudtalk : I salute yr commitment to helping the flood victims.
May Hui : I am not there but I can imagine it.
Yeah, I will probably be travelling down this weekend with some furniture & electrical items in my car. Yes, its massive the losses to businesses and farmers.