11-15-2022, 08:38 AM
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KUALA SELANGOR – Dark clouds began emerging over Jeram, while the smell of incoming rain was almost tangible.
Mohd Noor Atan and a couple of other villagers were painstakingly clearing the main swale along Taman Desa Ehsan that was clogged by litter and overgrown plants.
Just a day before, several houses in the small village, which is home to some two dozen families, were inundated in water following continuous rainfall, forcing some of the residents to move to temporary flood relief centres.
Noor Atan knew another downpour would deluge the remaining units in the flood-prone area.
“The rakyat have told those in power not to hold elections now, but they didn’t listen. How do you expect us to go out and vote when our houses and the roads are flooded?
“We can’t even sleep at night these days, afraid that rainwater will creep into our houses,” the exasperated 58-year-old retiree said when met.
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Mohd Noor Atan and a couple of other villagers were painstakingly clearing the main swale along Taman Desa Ehsan that was clogged by litter and overgrown plants.
Just a day before, several houses in the small village, which is home to some two dozen families, were inundated in water following continuous rainfall, forcing some of the residents to move to temporary flood relief centres.
Noor Atan knew another downpour would deluge the remaining units in the flood-prone area.
“The rakyat have told those in power not to hold elections now, but they didn’t listen. How do you expect us to go out and vote when our houses and the roads are flooded?
“We can’t even sleep at night these days, afraid that rainwater will creep into our houses,” the exasperated 58-year-old retiree said when met.
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