Flood at Lawas

At 6th February 2009, my hometown, Lawas had a disastrous flood, that reaches around .6 meter to 1.4 meter. It has been quite a long time since the last flood (well at least the 8 years that I am in here I heard nothing about the flood).

Is it really the change of the weather for the moment?

The Lawas Custom area.

The Lawas custom area as well as the only petrol station in Lawas, which is near to the river bank (you can see at the back of the yellow shop), seems to be the deepest area.

Apart from the custom area, this is the snap get from the direction of the custom area, it seems that there are certain high places are 'safe' from the disaster.

These are the city center area, it seems that these places are 'flooded' till you need to use the boat as the transport. Some areas at here, the water level is almost 1m and above.

The Airport road (approximately 1km from Lawas) are also affected by the flood too.

The morning of Lawas city. The rain stopped at 5pm (after almost 24 hours raining).

It is really bad as it has been a long time before this event re-appeared. It takes a lot of time to gather up the photos at here too.

Hopefully there will be no more such disaster in the future.