The recent 4-day-non-stop rain has resulted in a flood in the university but I would think that the extra-heavy-rain last night was the straw that broke the camel’s back, as they say.
The water level at the entrance to (top) and exit at (above) the university this morning wasn’t very high but I wasn’t too confident that my small car could pass it.
Not only was the entrance to the university flooded, apparently, we heard that water was knee-high in some places on campus! An emergency holiday has also been declared this morning. I wonder if the condition will improve tomorrow..?
A Professor who has been teaching at the university since 1979 said that there had never been a day she could not go to work due to the rain or flood. So if this isn’t the worst monsoon in 20 years, what is?
wow, it’s that bad, huh?
Wow, that is a lot of rain. I have yet to see anything this bad in person and would be devastating if this happened at the college I went to.
i bet it’s because the uni chopped off a lot of the mangrove trees and vegetation to build more stuff. see lah! teach us EIA but don’t apply it to themselves!
I’m into EIA and EMP therefore I don’t think this has to do with EIA because this involves a lot of factors and one of them is the rapid shift of local weather patterns from normal conditions due to global warming effects. Trust me, Terengganu is one of the few remaining states in the country which contains well preserved environment.
It is expected that with the global weather pattern shift to balance up the accumulated human activities and its related discharge, most hydrological forecast will no longer be functioning, therefore floods with frequency of once in 300 years or 500 years will significantly reduce to once in 10 years or 50 years. Simple English, the weather is becoming more and more unpredictable. Deadly superstorms like Katrina and Nargis will likely to happen more frequently.
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Oh goodness, UMT is sitting in the flood!
I hope the water did not enter the ground level labs as there will be a lot of damage for the equipments and machines. Especially the comp labs :S
It is common to experience the monsoon downpour this time of the year but it is however unusual to see this part of KT flood so badly. Typically, it is the other parts of Terengganu that was flooded to this extent. There must be some local alteration of the ecosystem services that have occurred to allow this climate irregularity to happen.
Silveraven may have highlighted a point to consider concerning the mangrove and vegetation clearance. Though it may not be so evident to relate the rainfall directly to that point, but the local rainfall patterns may have a correlation to evapotranspiration rates.
(http://www.iwaponline.com/nh/028/nh0280037.htm)
In addition to that, the local flood protection system (be it in the form of natural ecological services or man-made, like water irrigation/ drainage systems) should be preserved and effectively designed – just like how ColourfulWorld has pointed out earlier (http://www.springerlink.com/content/u8n3t55w44835ml2/). These factors and more comes into play in avoiding flooding circumstances like what KT is experiencing today.
Nope, the flood waters did not enter any offices or labs, as far as I’m concerned — only the main entrance. That was yesterday.
Today, the flood has subsided, and we could all go to work like we’d normally do. And to top it off, it didn’t rain today! :D
Global climate change is manifesting itself in different ways in different places. This is not receiving the urgent attention that it deserves from the world’s leaders.
Wow-ee! Yeah, weather sure has been extreme lately.
On a different note. Your uni looks nicer than mine!