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Posted on 25 Nov 2011

Is Singapore ready for floods like those in Bangkok?

STOMPer Joe is concerned whether Singapore is ready for increasingly common floods brought on by changing climate, particularly since it is a coastal city.

The STOMPer also wonders if the flood threat would result in landed property here losing their value.

The massive floods in Thailand have killed 320 people, mostly from drowning, and affected nearly 9 million more.

The STOMPer wrote:

"Floods are becoming more common nowadays.

"Are landed property owners expecting their valued possessions to become worthless?

"What can authorities do to help them protect their property?

"Experts are expecting sea levels to rise rapidly due to global warming, affecting coastal cities like Singapore.

"What can we do to prepare ourselves for this disaster?"

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Keywords: Bangkok , flood , Thailand

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laughateverything said on 28 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

Thailand is Thailand lah. Come on, don't ask stupid question like this lei. Their condition there is totally diff from Singapore.

BigHooHa said on 26 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

Currently i believe we are screwed not anywhere near ready. Look around you a little rain and you get pockets of water all over the place. More recently we've read floods all over the place, look at the recent weather year end stuff true. Just hope we don't get high tide and heavy rains coming on at the same time then it's gonna be an extremely wet day. Don't always think that this little island of ours is always protected by all the others surrounding us. You can't hide always so just be prepared when it does hit. No one at this point of time dares play god with all the answers.

joeaugust133 said on 26 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

Information gathered from the web have exposed the horrors of such events that recented unfolded in Japan in the form of deadly tsumami. Many of those survivors found themselves homeless with unpaid debts, then succumbed to suicides. As a landed property owner, what can we do, what can authorities do, to prepare for this? According to world experts, see levels will rise 50cm in the coming decades. Do not belittle this measurement as it is said to be capable of inundating Washington DC ie. White House. Coastal cities like Singapore, Florida (US) etc. will be doomed!

joeaugust133 said on 26 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

The point is: Singaporean's assets are basically tied up in the form of property. We may be asset rich but cash rich? haha! If such event can happen in near Thailand, and now even beginning to happen in Malaysia, should n't we begin to prepare ourselves? Just a decade ago, we hadn't even heard of floods in Singapore. Remember the flood in Marymount that shook everyone from their sleep? And that was just the beginning. So potential and existing landed property owners, who are going to be the most hardly hit if such events happen, better think twice investing everything they have, not to mention the bulk of the unpaid bank loans with non-existent collateral when such calamities do happen. It is not hard to imagine bank loan recalls as a consequence.

thisisart said on 26 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

Goodluck world

simontemplar23 said on 26 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

Go brush up on your geography. We don't have major tributaries in the island that can cause this level of flooding for so long.

HanaFajrNurJannah said on 25 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

Singapore would shut all there shops down if this happens
thai people seem to work in it and still smile away when they probably just lost there houses and everything

HanaFajrNurJannah said on 25 Nov, 2011 Report as offensive

these are old photos its worse then this now :/
I can't even go to the shop anymore :P
And because of this my car is broken from all the water
haish