As a result, two stretches of Bukit Timah Road - from Coronation
Road to Third Avenue and from Wilby Road to Blackmore Drive - were
under water in one of the worst floods in recent years.
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THE waters took the basement carpark of the 6th Avenue Centre by
stealth.
By the time Ms Pauline Tan, 30, went to check on her brand new
Peugeot 308, the 1,400kg car was half-submerged - but floating,
with its roof close to kissing the roof of the carpark.
Its windows were wound up, but water had entered it all the same,
reaching the seats inside.
A colleague of the co-owner of a cafe in the building came to her
aid - by swimming into the chest-high waters and guiding the gently
bobbing car towards the carpark exit in 20 minutes.
Ms Tan, visibly vexed, said: 'We have a motorcycle in there, but we
don't know where it is exactly.'
Three other vehicles and the motorcycle parked in the carpark were
still submerged when The Straits Times dropped by yesterday at
6pm.
The flooding disrupted telecommunications transmission equipment
installed in the basement carpark, cutting off telephone lines in
the building.
Contractors for both the PUB and SingTel were trying to pump the
water out in the evening.
Another basement carpark along Bukit Timah Road, the one in The
Tessarina condominium, was also flooded.
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The intense downpour - 110mm of rain between 12.50pm and 3.20pm
- was more than the canal could empty into the Pandan reservoir.
There were no reports of any serious incidents, but several
vehicles stalled and a few were nearly fully submerged in
underground carparks.
'The water level was so high my car was floating inside the
carpark. My colleague had to swim in to push it out,' said Ms
Pauline Tan, the owner of a silver Peugeot parked at the 6th Avenue
Centre basement carpark.
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