More Floods Pictures

The Pictures below are for record purposes only, to remind us what it was like during the Great Kedah Floods in November, 2010. Taken from a Friend's FB status update.

The Airport Looks more like a Sea Port



Along Jalan Sultanah

Sultanah Bahiyah School

Police Station, Kepala Batas

Esso Station, Jalan Sultanah

The Road at Taman Uda has become a River

Taman Uda

The Sultan's Plaground, Royal Golf Club

Zahir Mosque, State Mosque

The Plus Highway

A bungalow at Jalan Sultanah

Pictures of Floods in Alor Setar



Menteri Besar's House (Chief Minister's House not official residence)



Flood (Water) Rescue not Fire Rescue



Downtown Alor Setar



Esso Jalan Sultanah



Hindu temple



The dead are not spared either!



Pictures taken from the
STAR pictures gallery.

The unnatural flooding of Alor Setar has been blamed on the railway double tracking being constructed by MMC Gamuda. I bet millions have been lost and surely MMC Gamuda has a lot to answer to this fiasco.

Now is the time for the public listed companies (MMC and Gamuda)  to embark on a major CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programme to alleviate the sufferings of the masses due to their negligence or oversight.

Alternatively, the State has get the company to reimburse all expenses paid for the rescue operations and th running of the relief centres.

Floods Hits My Hometown.

While Indonesia grapples with the wrath of Mount Merapi, Malaysians in the northern states of Kedah, Perlis and Kelantan found themselves literally in deep waters.

The Minister of Housing and Local Government who hails from my hometown of Alor Setar in Kedah (whose house also happens to be not far from mine) has blamed the  double tracking raiway project as the cause of unpredented floods in Alor Setar. Read it here:

Floods closer to Home

During my schooldays, we had small flash floods, but never of this magnitude.



My Aunt's house on 5th Nov 2010

While the flood situation has eased in Kelantan and Perlis, the people of Kedah have still to brace up. Bernama reports that the number of flood evacuees in Kedah increased to 39,512 this morning compared to 32,990 last night as more areas are affected by the flood in the state.


Although many flood victims in Padang Terap have been allowed to return home, the number of evacuees from Kubang Pasu, Kota Setar and Pendang continued to increase.

There are now 21,111 evacuees in Kubang Pasu, 15,736 in Kota Setar and 241 in Pendang. There are still 657 people at Padang Terap flood relief centre compared to 2,279 last night, and 1,767 in Pokok Sena from 1,868 last night
A National Security Council operations room spokesman said 100 evacuation centres were still open this morning.
More areas were flooded, including the compound of the state police contingent and Bernama bureau office, both at Jalan Stadium.



My Aunt's House on 5th Nov 2010



The family (consisting of my sister, brother and their families; and two aunts and their families,) have packed their bags and are ready to evacuate to Sungei Petani, which has not been hit yet. My elder sister and her family live in Sungei Petani.

A School in Jalan Sultanah, Alor Setar

Pray hard that the situation will ease soon.