Holiday
Yes!!! my wish came true. They declared today a holiday last night at about 930pm. Why? coz some students were still in school!!! Their cars were still stuck in the jam. There is a mall cum housing complex abt 15 min from my school. It took some cars 7 hours to get there. One of the teachers walked and reached home at 630. Her driver reached her home at 12am!. Another friend got to one point thereafter which she had no transport - no cabs no bus no becak (trishaw). So she walked for 2 hours to get to her home. Her shoes gave way and she had to stop to buy a new pair of sandals to continue. The other Singaporean teachers were on their way home past the worst hit area. They had left the school at 3 pm. Their usual route was heavily flooded so the driver took another route and kept changing the route as all of them had major jams. Instead of going in a westerly direction the driver ended up in another location in a eastern direction. In that place the floodwaters were waist level. So they turned back, came to school to ride out the jamand ended up home at 12 am. There were cases of cars that got overheated and caught fire as the engines were running too long. Can you imagine cars deadlocked in a jam and the car next to you catches fire? Quite a few teachers and students had to spend the night at their friend's place
Well today i went back to school for a while and the roads next to it - they were clearing up and repairing the shop fronts. Some of the sidestreets still had mud and standing water.
Well it was certainly a day I will not forget for some time.