Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XXXIII!

• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 22:08

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  anyway, my aunt only got out because her neighbour was coming to singapore and he has a SUV.. a normal car could not have gotten past parts of the roads.. the NS highway was closed due to floodwaters..
  
  also, lucky it was a SUV, as there were a lot of potholes everywhere.. they were forced to use the little roads as the highway was not passable...

  NS Highway's still closed?
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 22:10

  well, today they were stopped from getting on the NS highway...
  
  reality, it was.... officially, it's pened" ?
  
  

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  NS Highway's still closed?

• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 22:11

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  well, today they were stopped from getting on the NS highway...
  
  reality, it was.... officially, it's pened" ?
  
  

  Now have to checked again...
  
  Now there's no news of the NS Highway
• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 22:14

  Nope... Nothing at all on Expressway updates
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 22:16

  aunt is just happy to get out..
  
  seems like the people in Muar have no idea what's happening and no one is telling them..
  
  the news you showed me says that the pumps failed.. the people there have had no news, no one told them and no one is telling them what to do... there has been no word of the promised water truck and it did not turn up
• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 22:22

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  aunt is just happy to get out..
  
  seems like the people in Muar have no idea what's happening and no one is telling them..
  
  the news you showed me says that the pumps failed.. the people there have had no news, no one told them and no one is telling them what to do... there has been no word of the promised water truck and it did not turn up

  Seems like communication is also in chaos
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 22:25

  yeah...
  
  4 people told her 4 different things about the water situation.. and all 4 were their gabrament officers
• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 22:31

  Talking abt it.. Reminds me of the UMNO assembly...
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 22:35

  kinda weird that in this day and age, Malaysia can get away with race-based political parties
• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 22:37

  They were saying that the last such big flood was 35 years back...
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 23:04

  who cares 35 years or what... they have to do something about it now!
• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 23:06

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  who cares 35 years or what... they have to do something about it now!

  Sometimes you can point to the drainage system... But partly cos of high tide
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 23:09

  water and food.. evacuation.. all that..
  
  not against mother nature.. what we can do, they haven't done..
  
  read that the authorities even go and extort money for rescue..
• sbst275

  23 Dec 06, 23:11

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  water and food.. evacuation.. all that..
  
  not against mother nature.. what we can do, they haven't done..
  
  read that the authorities even go and extort money for rescue..

  The worst, Najib says MY dun need external help.. But at the rate the thing is going, they're alrdy facing shortages...
  
  Yeah...
• viciouskitty74

  23 Dec 06, 23:16

  Well, most of us has power pleasure craft.
  
  If bear were to initiate a water rescue mission. I guess I can always drag out a old jetski
  
  Too bad I never finish the private pilot licence course, or we might have some helicoptors to work with.
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 23:33

  i'm a terra-firma bear.. the firmer the terra, the better
• laurence82

  23 Dec 06, 23:37

  according to my mum, Muar always get flooded now and then
  
  heard my hometown is relatively ok
  
  
• the Bear

  23 Dec 06, 23:41

  aunt fled not because of floods.. because there has been no running water for the past 3 days...
  
  there was supposed to be a water truck but it never turned up
• laurence82

  23 Dec 06, 23:45

  strangely, i dont know how one of my relatives do it
  
  we used to have water cutoff, but because we are such a large family, we can go to one of the relatives' house to get water or bathe freely
  
  and its always his house, which was quite ulu and near the railway track
  
  i suspect he tapped into this hidden underground water reservoir
  
  
• the Bear

  24 Dec 06, 00:01

  hmm.. it's sad..
  
  pumps went dead due to the deluge..
  
  worse was one of the papers was reporting that the rescuers were extorting the victims
• viciouskitty74

  24 Dec 06, 00:01

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  aunt fled not because of floods.. because there has been no running water for the past 3 days...
  
  there was supposed to be a water truck but it never turned up

  Sigh...the problem of natural disasters. Makes me real happy to have lived in Singapore.
• viciouskitty74

  24 Dec 06, 00:16

  New Orlenes is still having a hard time recovering from Katrina.
  
  I wonder what this flood in Mayalsia is called.
• the Bear

  24 Dec 06, 00:19

  it's called KNN
  
  

  Originally posted by viciouskitty74:

  New Orlenes is still having a hard time recovering from Katrina.
  
  I wonder what this flood in Mayalsia is called.

• viciouskitty74

  24 Dec 06, 00:22

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  it's called KNN
  
  

  Is this the same aunt that is asking you to marry, have kids and maybe sired some other pets?
• the Bear

  24 Dec 06, 00:28

  yah.. she fled Muar..
  
  uncle is in china on business..