The Malaysian Meteorological Department issued a red alert at 1.30pm, warning that intermittent and sometimes heavy downpours in Kelantan and Terengganu this week could lead to more floods in low-lying areas near river banks.
Thunderstorms in the two states have already forced over 8,000 flood victims to flee to relief centres in Dungun, Kemaman, Marang, Setiu, Hulu Terengganu and Besut.
Other less severe alerts were issued for:
- Kuantan, Pekan, Jerantut, Maran and Rompin in Pahang;
- Hulu Perak, Larut and Matang in Perak,
- Sik, Baling, Kubang Pasu, Padang Terap, Kota Setar and Pendang in Kedah and
- Perlis
If you are in an affected area, share with us how you or the people around you are coping.
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Please pray for all the victims and extend any affordable help. It’s another wake up call to Malaysians to care for the environment regardless of who you are.
Can the the Malaysians digest the annual flood report problem still hanging over the unfortunate victims after 52 years of independence?
Don’t tell me that there were no plans to study this annual problem and why no solution after all these years.
We are talking about going for 10th Malaysia plan and to become a develope country by 2020, looks like some people are not taking their job seriously, that’s Barisan National, isn’t it?
The taxpayers money are not properly managed that is why time and again, the country is short of CASH!.
Oil are pump out from Trengganu but they are replace annual with flood water, is this fair to the people of Trengganu?
There are people who use taxpayers money to purchase screwdrivers at RM45.00 per piece and gets away with it. How to have money to attend to the priorty of need of the citizens of Malaysia.
We have poor people who are hit by annual flood which make them poorer every year and now we have a minister who says the government is not responsible to compensate these poor people, I can believe this, lah?
I had heard rumours that the annual flood is a way for some cronies to make money annually by given contracts to supply to flood relief, like food supply, boats and others, is this true?
………..nobody is giving a … about the flood that the those poor families endured over this years in the east coast…..talk….talk….talk….God save Malaysia
It is good that private citizens show their care and concern for their fellow human beings, as they did when the tsunami hit our peninsular’s northern coasts in 2004. Still the greater responsibility and greater effort rests on the shoulders of the government. The BN government over the past 52 years has shown no initiative or will to alleviate the flood situation on the East coast. Now, with climate-change these annual disasters are reaching overwhelming proportions, the ruling party has no answers to these problems and does nothing constructive except to shift people around from flood inundated areas to evacuation centres and vice versa. There appear to be no concrete plans for flood prevention or alleviation, no compensation or help for the losses sustained; instead, the government decides to carry on school exams and temperature testing for possible H1N1 cases. Najib’s administration continues to give the difficulty and losses suffered by the people second place or even third place whiles mouthing the rhetoric ” Rakyat di utamakan” (People come first). How long can this charade go on? You can’t fool all the people all the time. Will the rakyat continue to support a government that encourages them to resign themselves to fatalism, whiles it keeps itself safe and dry and rich?
aha. how could i missed this when i made my latest post early this morning. exactly what i was wondering… what had the govt. been doing… like what anthony tan and kakipulau said. i will link this to my post.