TANAH MERAH - A disabled woman, Norazlinda Deraman, 31, had to depend on a boat, a wheelchair and a three-wheeler motorcycle to flee floodwaters before reaching the evacuation centre (PPS) of Sekolah Kebangsaan Alor Pasir.
Recalling the journey, Norazlinda said she and her daughter Nur Amalina Mohd Faizal, nine, started out in a boat as her older brother Alias Deraman, 43, came to her rescue when her home was in waters 1.5 metres deep at 4.30 am last Sunday.
"When the water started to rise, I called a security team four times, but they said the path to my house was submerged.
"My brother, who lives nearby, then used his boat to ferry us from the house immediately because he saw the the waters were rising ,” she said at PPS Alor Pasir here today.
Norazlinda said when they arrived at the road outside her home her sister-in-law Alawiyah Ramli, 41, tried pushing her in a wheelchair but the short push to the PPS was ruled out as the path was already submerged in flood waters thigh deep.
"It just so happened that at that time, a villager arrived on a three-wheeler motorcycle and I pleaded with him to take me to the PPS, while my sister-in-law brought my daughter there on a villager’s motorcycle.
"We had to detour to another road because the flood waters had risen so much in my village at the time, and this three-kilometre trip took about 20 minutes,” she said.
Norazlinda, who is also asthmatic, said the flood this year was like the ‘Yellow Flood’ of 2014 where her entire house was submerged up to the roof.
- BERNAMA
Recalling the journey, Norazlinda said she and her daughter Nur Amalina Mohd Faizal, nine, started out in a boat as her older brother Alias Deraman, 43, came to her rescue when her home was in waters 1.5 metres deep at 4.30 am last Sunday.
"When the water started to rise, I called a security team four times, but they said the path to my house was submerged.
"My brother, who lives nearby, then used his boat to ferry us from the house immediately because he saw the the waters were rising ,” she said at PPS Alor Pasir here today.
Norazlinda said when they arrived at the road outside her home her sister-in-law Alawiyah Ramli, 41, tried pushing her in a wheelchair but the short push to the PPS was ruled out as the path was already submerged in flood waters thigh deep.
"It just so happened that at that time, a villager arrived on a three-wheeler motorcycle and I pleaded with him to take me to the PPS, while my sister-in-law brought my daughter there on a villager’s motorcycle.
"We had to detour to another road because the flood waters had risen so much in my village at the time, and this three-kilometre trip took about 20 minutes,” she said.
Norazlinda, who is also asthmatic, said the flood this year was like the ‘Yellow Flood’ of 2014 where her entire house was submerged up to the roof.
- BERNAMA