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Public Utilities Board issued a proclamation that the number of areas including Orchard Road, Newton rings, Kampong Java Road, Lincoln Road, Cambridge Road, Mount Cotton Road and the junction of Thomson Road, Bukit Timah Road and Sixth Road junction, have emerged flooding rainfall.
Some low-lying areas of stagnant water was up to half of the lower leg so high, about 30 cm deep. Fortunately, the water comes and disappear just as quickly subsided, Mount Cotton Road and the junction of Thomson Road, Bukit Timah Road and Sixth Road at the junction of water about 6 pm on the faded, Orchard Road flooded at 6:00 pm subsided about 35 minutes, other parts of the water, is more better in one hour.
Last year, flooded the ground floor shops of Orchard Road strong building (Liat Towers), $ 2 million in the laying of automatic water outside the building gate, only to the case of heavy rain comes, waterproof gate but failed, fail to do so from acute Chung rain, flooding the ground floor shop into a moment of "pool" of customers all trapped in the store.
Fortunately, building connection (Lucky Plaza) and Ngee Ann City underpass, and the bottom layer, Lucky Building, also flooded. Orchard Road between vehicles, road surface water due to high, have been forced to stop on the road, blocking traffic one o'clock, long lines, traffic police quickly arrived to maintain order.
Public Utilities Board said, in the 14:20 to 5:20, heavy rain continued Orchard Road area, three hours up to 152.8 mm of rainfall.
Despite last year's flooding situation is not repeated Orchard, but the "flood zone" outside the building once again seriously strong water, a few minutes into the rain, the ground floor shops, including Wendy's fast food outlets, the Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti, and in Building strong outside the United States Garrett Popcorn popcorn chain stores, and soon the rain poured, and steadily rising.
Them, Wendy's opened in June last year, only three days flooded, to resume operation after a whole month and a half, this may have done a precaution but no match for water, staff have evacuated the store customers, the temporary closure of clean-up, so this Christmas Festival expected to increase performance, it seems too wasted.
Wendy's business development manager Di Wang Hui said in an interview in the afternoon about 5 o'clock, the staff on duty outside the shop see more and more serious water situation, water depth up to half of the lower leg store, the store had to turn off the power to inform patrons evacuated.
Starbucks was in the store's customers Jun-Ying Liu (24), said the influx of rain soon, the store attendant had arranged with a chair "chair bridge" so that customers one by one stepped on a chair to "escape" out of the road outside the shop through the steps.
Reporters arrived at the scene yesterday, I saw the store employees sweep the water with a mop out of the shop, building strong management staff and cleaners, also started outside the building water gates and pumping help.
Households that shop more by exercise, temporarily unable to resume normal business. Wang Hui Di said, have asked the contractor and the insurance company today sent to the scene investigation, the loss is still not possible to estimate the number, they have a thorough examination of the shop equipment for damage.
Lie buildings in Orchard Road flooding incidents in the past two years are affected. Last June 16, Orchard Road, severe rain water, building a strong hit. June 5, after a heavy rain, strong building ground floor shop is also the rain poured, water depth, and ankle.
