21 December 2021 - The continuous rain in KL finally stopped yesterday. The skies were so clear last night that we could see the unusually huge super moon clearly in the sky.
Looking at the photos of the great flood that inundated many parts of Klang Valley for the past few days, especially at the residential areas in Shah Alam, reminds me of our Taman TTDI house in Batu 3, Shah Alam that was inundated in floor waters 15 years ago in early 2006. Alycia was only 2 years old and Sherilyn barely 1 year old. As there was no social media back in the day, no help was sent to our area.
The rain started at 3am and by 5am, the rain water started to come into our house. By mid morning, the ground floor of our double storey house was submerged in almost a meter deep of flood water.
We salvaged all the frozen foods in our chiller and freezer and ate them for lunch. The girls were elated to have ice-cream and biscuits for lunch. Thank God for hubby's close friend, who is the girls' god father, who came to rescue us. Our fridge floated from the kitchen to the living room. Our cars were submerged in water up to half the height of the car seat. Damages to our house and cars were estimated to be almost a hundred thousand Ringgit.
I remember waddling in the flood water up to waist level from our house to a bridge about 15 minutes away from our house to meet our friend who drove us away from the disaster scene. Alycia was placed in a makeshift boat which was a huge Toyogo plastic box and Sherilyn was in my arms. We could only carry important stuff with us and had to leave Happy, our beagle behind. Poor Happy must have been terribly traumatized. It still shatters my heart thinking of Happy, our pet dog. Happy was left on our staircase for over 24 hours and given only toddler biscuits when we fled the flooded house.
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| My Proton Wira and hubby's Toyota Innova in February 2006. |
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Our neighbor's car. |
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| The great flood that wiped out almost everything on the ground floor of our house. And this is what made us choose condo living. |
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| The weather was so chilly the past few wet days that Haru's ears were cold. Cass wrapped Haru up in a towel and Haru seemed to enjoy being bundled up comfortably in her box bed. |