FLOODING IN SINGAPORE

The other day it was raining hard, not too surprising for a tropical country or peeps from Vancouver, but this rain was really intense, some may have called it a "torrential downpour". What was more surprising, was that it didn't stop either, usually a rain storm lasts for about an hour in Singapore but this one was a good half day. I didn't think anything of it at work, and Michelle was not worried about it at home but in the heart of Downtown Singapore, another story unfolded.

Orchard Road is the hub of downtown, think Vancouver's Robson Street on Steroids filled with Malls and Malls and you guessed it, even more malls, it's a Shopaholic's dream but this day, that dream became a nightmare. Thanks to the rain, Orchard Road and most of it's ground floor and basement-level stores flooded. It was a rare sight in Singapore and one that made the news quickly. Cars stalled, MRT's stopped and buses rerouted, people were late if they could get into downtown at all, it was a catastrophe of rainy proportions.

The stores are okay now, they just have some soiled goods and wet interiors but on that day of super-rain, they were close to becoming underwater establishments. And in true Singaporean fashion, the city planners and all the over-construction were not to blame as the "official" cause of the floods was "foliage blocking the drains".... ummm, sure.

Crazy potatoes!!!