Eastern and central Singapore hit by flash floods

The Straits Times reported that heavy rain yesterday afternoon caused flash floods in the eastern and central parts of Singapore. A spokesman for PUB, the national water agency, said that total rainfall of 77mm was recorded at Kim Chuan rain gauge from 4:20pm to 6:40pm, of which 60.2mm fell from 5:05pm to 5:35pm.

Flash floods lasting 30 minutes to one hour were reported at the following locations:

Paya Lebar Road (under PIE-Paya Lebar flyover)
Service Road off Upper Paya Lebar Road (near Lim Teck Boo Road)
Arumugam Road and Ubi Avenue 2
Eunos Crescent
Junction of Macpherson Road and Harvey Road
PIE (towards Changi Airport) slip road at Stevens Road Exit
Thomson Road (near Novena Rise)

The first four locations were affected as Geylang River was flowing full during the storm. Ongoing drainage improvement work in the area is expected to be completed by end 2014.

Around MacPherson MRT station, at the junction of Paya Lebar Road and Ubi Avenue 2, buses were stranded for over an hour.

A caretaker of Cheng Hong Siang Tng Kew Huang Keng Combined Temple at the end of Arumugam road said that water flowed into the temple.