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In early 1970s, Bayan Baru was a spread of padi field, green and turned yellow gold when ready for harvesting.

You have kampung houses like islands in the spread of padi field. Gone were all this beautiful scenario in the name of development of Bayan Baru and in the name of electronics industry FTZ under the brainy lim Chong Eu.

As smart as he could be that time, Bayan Baru land is mostly still a low land area and with rising sea level over the decades due global warming, this area is so prone to frequent flood.

When it rains heavy for more than 4hours with extra high sea water level, this is a good recipe for flood and rakyat are the ones facing the problems.

We must look forward.

To begin with, we must start to give proposals how to go about it.

How is CM going to handle this?
Who is going to undertake the study? etc.

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readthis before u start making conclusions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050990/The-North-Pole-island-time-history-ice-melts.html

The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history.

Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages – making it possible to sail around the Arctic ice cap.

The opening of the passages has been eagerly awaited by shipping companies which hope they will be able to cut thousands of miles off their routes.
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Blocked: The Arctic ice, showing as a pink mass in the 1979 picture, links up with northern Canada (on the left) and Russia (right)

But to climate change scientists it is yet another sign of the damage global warming is inflicting on the planet.

Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist, described the images as an ‘historic event’ – but warned they added to fears that the Arctic icecap has entered a ‘death spiral’.

The pictures, produced by Nasa, mark the first time in at least 125,000 years that the two shortcuts linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have been ice-free at the same time.

In 2005, the North-East Passage around Russia opened, while the western one, across the top of Canada, remained closed, and last year the position was reversed.

But the satellite data shows that the North-West passage opened last weekend and the remaining tongue of ice blocking the North-Eastern one dissolved a few days later.

Professor Serreze, of the U.S. government-funded National Snow and Ice Data Center, told a Sunday newspaper: ‘The passages are open. It is an historic event.

‘We are going to see this more and more as the years go by.’
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Thawing ocean: The North-West Passage (circled left) and the North-East Passage (top right) are clear of ice

Shipping companies are ready to exploit the new routes. The Beluga group, based in Bremen, Germany, plans to send the first ship through the North-East passage next year, cutting 4,000 nautical miles off the voyage from Germany to Japan.

If the ice continues to melt at current rates it will soon be possible to sail right across the North Pole.

Many scientists believe that the mass of ice that forms a jagged circle around the North Pole could vanish altogether in the summer by 2030.

Others believe it could take as little as five years for the Pole, currently frozen all year round, to be ice-free between mid-July and mid-September.

Four weeks ago, tourists had to be evacuated from Baffin Island’s Auyuittuq National Park in northern Canada because of flooding from thawed glaciers.

The park’s name means ‘land that never melts’.

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My house in the area which used to be safe as it is a bit high than others but now it is under threat. Yesterday my porch and back was flooded. It is a matter of time I will have a free indoor wading pool provided by the the ex-BN government due to their failure to take early actions.

I have brought this matter to the attention of the formal BN state and parliament reps but they don’t seems to act with urgency even my house was not affected at that time. I know that we have to think ahead as things don’t get done immediately and early warning is always recommended for people to digest into their brain like the wakil rakyats.

When the the south eastern coast started reclamation works in 1987, the water discharge from Bayan Baru area and its hinterland like Sungai Ara, Relau etc were extended further out by some 1.5km to 2km. It is all fine if the water discharged channels were deep to allow proper outflow to the sea. As far as I know, part of the deepening of these discharged channels were packaged with the reclamation works to deepen it. It was carried out according the the contract. But these channels were recommended to be maintain regularly of not more than fives years by deepening it due to siltation.

From 1988 to date, there is no sign of any maintenance to these channels, so are we looking for trouble? There are already warning signs given to us now that urgent works need to be done immediately but when?

The people of Pantai Jerejak and Bayan Baru is looking forward to the state government to take action immediately where the BN have failed to carry out.

If nothing is to done immediately, we are just waiting for a major disaster to strike which is going to cause a lot anger, hardship, loss of properties and even life. A prevention is better than cure at this instance.

Coming to a general point on flood in Penang, many areas have been experiencing flood especially the notorious Jalan P Ramlee and Sungai Pinang area, we are so proud to achieve 51 years of Mederka but this problem existed even before Mederka and yet the BN government talks about development of mega projects in Penang under their care for so many years. The flood problem has been there for donkey years but nothing have been done to resolve the problem, no wonder the BN was sacked in Penang. What happen to the cleaning up of Sungai Pinang and how much fund have been spend? What has it achieved and where is the report on the project? Was it a success or failure?

I heard rumour that flood is an annual bonus to certain group people to make money for supplying flood relief stuffs to the government above normal market price without having to follow the MOF tender procedure due to the emergency requirement nature which runs into millions. So far no one has asked for the check the accounts not even the accountant general office vet it. Anyone got some leads to this?

Is the annual flood part of the programme to make the BN government looks good to the affected rakyats for been caring especially to rural folks? Take a further look at the annual flood problem in Kelantan, Trengganu, Pahang and Johor, when flood happens all BN VIPs will make a bee line to visit flood areas with all TV stations in the rumbongan to get cheap publicity. Don’t BN sadists know that prevention is better than cure?

Can’t the BN government take a serious look at the country’s annual flood problem or they need PKR government take care of the problem for them.

This is nothing new. Every time there is a heavy downpour, many parts of Penang island floods. KTK had failed to solve such a basic problem plaguing Penangites despite enjoying the trappings of office for eighteen years.

Penangites have only themselves to blame for keeping such an incompetent CM in office all those years.

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