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The late Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Chin Fung Kee of Universit Malaya used to remind his students in the '60s and '70s never to build nor allow to build any structure against nature.

For nature will fight back with calamities and disasters.

this is unacceptable. its sad to hear this.

the council wouldnt approve projects if the 'under table money' from developers werent significant, developers gets money from the sales of luxury houses that were built next to the hill , on top of the hill, or wherever that is deemed 'prestigious and premium'. there wont be sales in the first place if there isnt any demand from the people for such homes.

or could it be just some more than average torrential rainfall we're experiencing?

we're just paying the price for our own greed. greed itself is in our nature , sigh , nothing can be done.

did you highlight the plights of villagers from rural areas during the monsoon season recently?

It's not too long someone will say 'It's a God's act' or 'If God wants the water to stay, the water gets to say.'

Semuanya O.K.!

Adding to Mikewang's reference to the Professor wisdom, I can also recall his words about Engineering. The failure of an engineering project would be left stark naked (MMR2?) for every one to see; whereas the surgeon's or doctor's mistake would be buried unseen.

[ DELETED - Gt your facts right. Khir Toyo was not born an Indonesian. Don't hijack this blog topic. ]

How can that be achieved if treee huggers and the likes of Jacob and Jeff were to rule? It is gang bang developers who enable wealth accumulation for the incumbent, not tree huggers. So by the time the new Mentri Besar is appointed you find what is left is only selected pieces that developers will be interested in. You think rapists like to rape ugly girls? Same la here.

And if you think Toyo is bad, wait till he is replaced and the next Mentri Besar comes around and finds to his horror there is no more "pretty parcels" lying around to arouse the interest of gang bang developers? Who wants to be Mentri Besar then?

Dr Jacob George and TTDI residents are not alone in experiencing difficulties in this so called "Malaysia's first Developed State".

I have been enduring terrible traffic congestion during the evening rush hour along Jalan Ampang leading towards the MRR2 at Amapang Point just because of a flash flood before the ramp infront of Ampang City. This has been happening everytime after a down pour. Why can't the PBT (MPAJ) do something? Are they blind?

This reminds me of Theme Park of America.

1. Mini sized Mono Rails,
2. Race Circuits,
3. Man made water reservours for recreations,
4. Roadside stalls,
5. Congested crowds...

These are minimum specifications as to declared Status Developed,

Welcome to Selangor, the Khir Toyo Theme Park.

If we were to ask the people for a popular vote between Khir Toyo of the so called "Malaysia's first Developed State" and Karam Singh of TV3 News, I'm sure the later will win hands down.

As of now, the victims have not been rescued or transferred to safer place. How do I know, My brother in law happen to be resident there and we have been communicating through mobile phone since morning. WTF.

[ selangor information Minister]

There is no flooding. It is all lies. This is all oppositions propaganda and lies to deny Selangor's developed status. There is no flood. There are trees, parks and roads that are free from traffic. Crimes are at all time low.

[/ selangor information Minister]

;) I wonder what Toyo will say about this. Use the New Orlean's example to show that even the mighest country in the world have the same problem?

Lets hope the residents in the area have home contents insurance for all the water damage.

the only place developed in sgor is the MB' hse and the few other bungalows surrounding it. sgor is still lights years behind singapore in many areas.

Yang Arif said: "If we were to ask the people for a popular vote between Khir Toyo of the so called "Malaysia's first Developed State" and Karam Singh of TV3 News, I'm sure the later will win hands down"

Yeaah, Karam Singh Walia banyak menyumbang kerana dia banyak bercakap. Di Malaysia orang banyak bercakap dan menulis lebih popular dan nampak bagus berbanding orang bekerja.

Bagaimanapun harap Khir Revamp semua PBT supaya lebih efektif.

Politics and MB-bashing aside, the local citizens of Klang are stuck within their own town. As people may or may not know, in order to get in and out of Klang, there exists 3 main roadways: the NKVE, KESAS and Federal Highway.

The Federal Highway is flooded at Batu Tiga. So is the NKVE, although apparently to a lesser degree. Throughway is not possible however. Coming back from KL to Klang in the afternoon was hell. As KESAS was the only avenue, the jam to Klang was horrendous. Driving towards my destination, I could see the queue to get out of Klang through the KESAS highway was even worse.

Today is truly a day when Klang-ites are prisoners of their own constituency. I've always maintained that if anyone ever needed to keep Klang-ites to stay where they are, one need only look at the two-way four-lane stretch of road which leads to the NKVE and Federal Highway, the one where the Klang Hokkien Association lies.

And still I see no progress or motion to upgrade the roadway infrastructure.

It is a FEATURES. An experiment prototype of future KL "water city" plan.

These flash floodings are one of the sure signs of a bad development planning (or lack of it). I bet they blame it on the weather just like the MMR2 sorry saga.
I think Toyo didn't loose sleep last night as his mansion did not flood.

Let's see what spin the Sgor MB puts on this one.

The PM's patience with him must be running pretty low.

Perhaps the NST will declare 'open season" on KT. That would be interesting, because Zam would find it very difficult to defend KT.

Which would only leave his buddies in Umno Youth. But why would Hishamuddin and KJ want to bail out KT?

Interesting, no?

Natural calamities are nothing new. It affects the developed as well as undeveloped places.To minimise inconvenience in our equatorial climate, best to study location of dwellings carefully.It seldom rains in california, but they also suffer from floods and other catastrophe.

another first...Selangor first developed state to have state capital under water. One more, 1st developed state to have no full local UMNO minister.

Basically all bad planning and wanton approvals of plans regardless of their are near river or will chop down trees which will cause impact to the environment.

Selangor Maju!!! Selangor Malu!!!!

Jeff,

Could these floods relates to the over development of Shah Alam?
Remember the time when the issue of over development of Shah Alam? Where the trees were torn down for development? Is this Karma?
It is known when there are fewer trees floods can occur more easily. Is this Karma?Is mother nature trying to tell us something?

Who needs Sunway Lagoon when you have Khir Toyo Water Theme Park.

Im reallty sorry for all residents of Shah Alam that are affected by the flood. I shudder to imagined how many ppl actually have home insurances.

I was told that the bridge/road levels should be designed on a 100 year flood level returns (or 50 year, I forget). To save cost, Plus used the 25 year returns. Hence both NKVE and the Federal Highway were flooded but not Kesas.

Unfortunately, the 25 years returns looks more like 10 with all the "development" in the State of Selangor.