Thursday November 12, 2009
More evacuees in Kedah go home
By EMBUN MAJID
ALOR SETAR: The flood situation in Kedah has improved with evacuees in three districts returning home, leaving only 987 people still staying at four evacuation centres in the Kota Setar district.
Evacuees in Pokok Sena, Kubang Pasu and Padang Terap, which totalled 837 people on Tuesday, all returned home yesterday morning after the flood waters receded.
The flood operations centres in all three districts were also closed.
Only 987 people from 15 villages in Kota Setar, including Kampung Lapangan Terbang, Kampung Anak Bukit, Kampung Titi Gajah, Kampung Gunung, Kampung Alor Melintang and Kampung Seberang Pumpong, were still staying at evacuation centres as at 4pm yesterday.
Water everywhere: Abu Hassan Lazim (right) being helped by friends to salvage his furniture at his flooded house in Kampung Desa Puri, Tasik Gelugor,Wednesday. The situation in the district is expected to improve as the water levels of both the Pantai Johor and Kepala Batas rivers has gone down.
A state flood operations centre spokesman said the level of the Pantai Johor River was just 0.05m above the danger level while the level at the Kepala Batas River was 2.89m, below the 3.5m danger mark as at 4pm yesterday.
The levels of the two rivers were 2.41m and 4.25m respectively on Tuesday.
Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak urged all flood victims to lodge reports with the state Welfare Department about their losses to ensure aid distribution later.
In Kota Baru, Bernama reports that there are still 1,094 flood victims at three evacuation centres in Kelantan involving 336 families in the Tumpat district.
Chief operations officer at the Flood Operations Centre Wan Mustapha Wan Abdul Hamid said that as at 3pm yesterday, the water level was receding and below the danger level.
All roads that were closed since the floods several days ago had been reopened due to the improved weather.
The Kemubu Agricultural Development Authority has allocated a subsidy of RM7.2mil to 1,200 padi farmers who had suffered losses due to the floods.
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