Flash + Floods = Flash Floods

As most Singaporean know and have probably experienced it themselves, Singapore recently has suffered from a series of flash floods. The reasons given by the government were numerous : clogged drain, caught off guard etc etc. The people are slamming the government for not helping to prevent the floods, and letting it happen it the first place. So who was in the wrong? In my opinion, both parties are in the wrong.

First I shall start with the people and how they are in the wrong. Right now, all they are doing is complaining about their lives and feeling sorry for themselves. The blame game is then started, blame the PUB, blame the government, blame everyone else. However they are missing one important party, MOTHER NATURE. The people keep blaming it on the government, but have they actually even thought thoroughly about it? Are they being reasonable? The rainfall in the morning of the first flood day, amounted to 60% of the total rainfall the previous month. Some people may think that it is just a bit rain. But think about it. Every 1-2 days it rains once, and each time it rains it is enough to leave huge puddles of water on the ground even hours after the rain has stopped. Add all that up in a month, and 3/5 of that amount of rain poured down on Singapore in one morning. We have to bring ourselves to admit that no one can predict it. If everyone thinks it is so easy, why not do it themselves? They keep saying that it is the government's responsiblity, but that is just a pathetic excuse to cover up for their own incompetence.  Mother Nature is not a political party nor a country. Singapore can't make a treaty or pact with mother nature. MN gets to do what it wants, and no one can stop it. If it decides to give us a whole load of rain in morning, what can we do? Songs dont work, bribes dont work, NOTHING WORKS. The only thing we can do is just stand and one side and take the shit coming towards us.

However i feel that the government is also wrong in a way. They should just stop making excuses and come clean. Actually, by blaming the floods on a clogged drain, they make it their fault that the floods happened. This is because that means that they are at fault for poor maintenance of the drains. However the government's excuse is quite hard to believe. The width of the drain is said to be equivalent to that of a SBS bus. Such a big drain is hard to clog up. Even if something of great length were to jam and clog the drain at one point, it will be quickly washed away by the mass of rushing water in the drain. It is hard to even find such big things big enough to clog the drains!

Both parties should just stop playing the blame game. The people should stop complaining and the government should start taking action. If you can't change what is happening, don't complain because it doesn't help. Those who are not part of the solution are part of the problem.