Singapore Mega Floods
More mud slides happen
People flee their village they survive but their homes don’t
Thursday December 9 rains chest deep
June raining once more
February 7 1982 raining again
January 18 has been raining for 2 day
Vegetable farms were flooded
Horrible rain in Bedok
Some reach safety
Affected About 1,500 people
Ppl started fleeing their homes
Farmer are furious
1965 Singapore gained its independence
Government wanted to get their money back so they couldn’t complete their drainage task
While they were building, it rains and things start falling apart
December 10 1969 it’s rains very hard and a family decides to flee. It was to late the family disappeared. They found the dad but the mother and child were found dead in the Med slide
Rain flows up to the roof
Trouble getting people out of their homes
It was raining to hard, the soldiers couldn’t see
Flood reaches 6 feet
Army boats arrive looking for survivors
People volunteer helping
Families get stranded
People need to go to the hospital but the rain is stopping them
Rivers overflow
If you go closer to the river, the water rises more
3,500 fled their homes
Animals died as well
A lot of poor people lost everything
Over 400 families lost all their belongings
A lot of people didn’t have jobs because of the rain and the flood
There was also a health threat since there was very polluted water
It was hard to get food since the farms were flooded
After a while, people learned how and where to put drains
Late in the decade, Singapore make a lot of progress with the drainage
But it rains once more a another flood happens
A lot of the farm animals escape and die
Vehicles can’t move because if the flood
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a person get electrocuted because of the hot water and the electricity wires
Over 5 decades, Singapore was now able to stop floods and our drainage system is one step ahead