Thanks Minister Obvious

“PUB has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm,”, PAP Environment Minister Yaacob Ibrahim on the recent Great Flood of Orchard Road Part 2.

Well… whatever. I’m not sure what other causes there can be that will result in a flood in Sinkapore. Earthquake maybe?

After claiming that the very first flood was due to some ‘blockages’ that required $2million to clean up, now they’re saying there’s a ‘new twist‘, and apparently it’s the design and capacity of the canal. Wow, blew my mind away… Is that going to cost more money?

If you are going to do that, you will need huge tracts of land put aside for huge monsoon drains, which will be empty most of the time, (and) the infrastructure will cost a lot of money and it is not worth it,” he (Son of Lee) said, speaking in the wake of the recent flash floods here.

Lo, behold... Wendy's and Hermes's answers to their prayers!

Now, here‘s some seriously world-class drainage system that’ll probably keep Sinkapore totally flood free. They should learn to use Google. Monsoon drains? Man, that’s so yesterday. Huge tracts of land? I’m sure the land below us belongs to us as well… but I’m not sure if it’ll alleviate the sinking though. Now about that money… The huge holes created in our funds by Temasek and GIC would have easily fund the building of this hole instead, but yeah, it’s not worth it. Really… even if I had money to burn, I’ll burn it on some amazingly useless events like the YOG.

I quote from here,

To download of rain water, the complex is equipped with a turbopump 59. Their total capacity of 14 thousand horsepower, they can outrun the top 200 tons of water per second. It seems that this might certainly be designed for the most intense flooding. However, in this area in a heavy downpour falling on 200 millimeters of precipitation, and sometimes up to 400 (monthly rainfall for Moscow, for example, is 35 millimeters). Therefore, margin of safety facilities placed enormous. Let all the sea would rise in clouds and rain fall. Designers should consider a set of massive underground storage for many thousands of tons of water to the height of precipitation area upstairs is not to submergence.

Some videos from here.