orchard river

taken from stomp

those of you familiar with the shopping belt should be able to get the extent of the flood that took place yesterday morning. on the right outside the photo would be the hermes store.no casualties there, i believe. i live under a rock or have fish memory so this took me by surprise. if i'm not wrong, bukit timah is also one of other low-lying areas in singapore. i think i was caught in floods only a couple of times in my lifetime and that was during school days. the water reached just above the ankles so it's nothing dramatic. 

trivia:
it was 端午节 yesterday.  

i heard from someone that it traditionally rains on this festival (i couldn't verify this fact) so we could have rowed dragonboats down this River yesterday.