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Unusually heavy rain made worse by a swollen tide resulted in one of the worst floods to hit the city early today.Waters rose so rapidly in the pre-dawn thunderstorm that more than 2,000 people had to flee their homes with just the clothes on their backs while several cars, many of them brand new models in a Proton dealer’s yard, were submerged.Sections of the Federal Highway and the New Klang Valley Expressway had to be closed to traffic.

The three affected areas were Kampung Kebun Bunga and Taman Mesra in Batu Tiga, Taman Tun Dr Ismail and Kampung Melayu Subang near the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. KTM Komuter services were also disrupted as the Batu Tiga station was flooded.According to a PLUS Expressways Bhd spokesman, the stretches at Km9.2 of the NKVE and Km15 of the Federal Highway were closed to all vehicles since morning as they were under one metre of water.The NKVE stretch between Subang and Bukit Raja was closed at 4.53am while the Federal Highway was closed at 5.55am. This caused a major jam as traffic was backlogged for several kilometres. Many were seen turning back as PLUS officials opened U-turns for the stranded motorists. The NKVE was reopened at 2.20pm while the Federal Highway was reopened at 1.30pm.He said the toll plazas in Shah Alam, Batu Tiga and Bukit Raja were also closed in the morning.KTMB said its commuter service from Sentul to Port Klang terminated at the Subang Jaya station and trains returned to Sentul, while the service from Port Klang to Sentul terminated at the Shah Alam station and turned back. However, all train services resumed at 2.03pm after waters receded.In Kampung Kebun Bunga in Batu Tiga, about 800 families fled their homes after the Sungai Damansara, which flows behind their village, overflowed and a section of the bund gave way.Fire and Rescue Department and Civil Defence personnel arrived at the village with five boats and managed to evacuate the villagers.Senior Assistant Superintendent Borhan Madon from the Shah Alam fire station said many of the villagers were sitting on their roofs, awaiting rescue as the waters had risen rapidly."Many were trapped in their homes and in some places, it rose to the ceiling. However, there were no casualties."According to the villagers, the waters rose to about six metres in some places.Among those badly affected by the flood was a Proton dealer. He said there were about 60 brand new and unregistered cars in the yard when the waters rose."My workers could only push 30 cars out but the rest are all in the water now. The models include Perdana, Waja and Wira." Batu Tiga state assemblyman Datuk Salamon Selamat said about 1,500 people were evacuated from the village and had been housed in three nearby community, school and district council halls.


In TTDI, more than 1,000 homes were affected as waters rose to about 1.5 metres.However, only about 150 people were evacuated to a nearby mosque as many opted to remain on the first floors of their homes.Welfare Department officials were present at all the evacuation centres to monitor the situation.

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