Wednesday, December 20, 2006
|Wednesday, December 20, 2006|
LASTEST NEWS.
Flood waters engulf low-lying areas of Upper Thomson Road
SINGAPORE: It was a wet wet day for many of the shophouses along the Upper Thomson and Mandai Road areas.
Heavy rain results in traffic jams and floods
SINGAPORE: Heavy rain has caused chaos across many places in Singapore.
A part of Singapore was swamped by more than the average monthly rainfall for the rt of an empty old shophouse collapsed with debris spilling onto the street.
The shophouse is located along Tong Watt Road near River Valley.
Police have cordoned the area and engineers from the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) were despatched to the scene.
Preliminary assessment shows that the brick wall had partially collapsed because the shophouse foundation had weakened from flooding.
BCA has served a closure order for the building.
The owner of the shophouse has also been directed to remove the collapsed wall as well as the remaining section of the wall, which is still standing.
The engineers say the buildings in the immediate vicinity of the incident are not affected.
By 9.50pm on Tuesday, the flood situation has improved and traffic is back to normal in most of the affected areas. Lornie Road towards Farrer Road is open to traffic.
However, the junction of Joan Road/Olive Road is still flooded.
As a result of the exceptionally heavy rainfall, excess water from MacRitchie Reservoir has spilled beyond the overflow channel.
The Meteorological Services Division has forecasted that there will be windy and occasional heavy rain expected over Singapore till 9am Wednesday.
LASTEST: It's been raining for nearly 24hours non-stop.
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