His family was prepared for the impending floods.
Thus, they started sticking planks at the gate to prevent water from flowing into the house. But they thought it would only be one of those “mini” floods again.
“Little did we know, the next day, 18 December, it was still raining like there’s no tomorrow,” Lim recounted.
“The water [had] reached ankle level. So my brother [and I] went to park all three of our cars [on] higher ground leaving one extra car for us just in case the water level [rose] higher.”
In the duration of relocating their cars, the water had risen at a worrying pace. Lim said his family began to move things from the ground floor to the first floor.
“Approximately four to five hours later of moving, the water [had] reached [hip] level,” he continued.
“We wanted to stay in the house for the night to monitor the situation and we didn’t expect it would get any higher than hips level (sic) as it didn’t for the past 26 years.”