A huge crowd of residents of my condo turned up for last night's meeting with the condo management to discuss the flooding of the condo lower ground basement parking. The condo management and developer representatives were there as well, in an attempt to defend themselves from the onslaught of angry residents. However, there was no PA system, so we couldn't hear much of anything the management reps had to say with such a huge crowd in a big room, especially since they were so soft-spoken. It was only halfway through that someone was smart enough to get a megaphone from the Local politician Gwo Burne Loh was there as well as a middleman, and quite frankly I think we got better answers to our questions from him then we did from the condo management.
As expected, there was no promise of compensation from the management, and no explanation why the management or the guards did not try to alert us to the floods, except for the excuse that the water rose too fast, within 15-20 minutes. However, this timeframe was disputed by one of the other residents, who says the water was rising two hours before 11pm on Wednesday night, which was when the water was highest. They did not promise to have a proper flood warning system in place, so one of the residents just told everyone that next time this happens, just pull the fire alarm (which is what I wanted to say). The only promise made is that they are reinforcing the wall between the condo and the small river next to the condo so the water cannot come through, but of course this takes time as they have to submit construction plans to the government, etc. So when someone asked when the wall would be done, they could not give an answer either.
The crowd was of course not happy at all, although it never got too unruly. At most, one guy came in front to ask a question and ended up yelling some nonsense, but that got under control quickly. And the rest of the people at most would shout in support to anyone who raised a good question to management.
The only piece of potentially good news I heard was from Gwo Burne Loh, who said that he had seen a document stating that the condo is actually insured against floods INCLUDING damaged cars, for s sum of RM171 million! If that is true, that would be more tha enough to cover the repairs to all the cars...however I would demand compensation for the entire worth of my car, simply because my car which is only ONE year old is now going to difficult to sell off and the parts will wear out quickly, so I will have to buy a new car anyway.
I'm hoping for good news from them. For now, 6 of the residents have formed a group to push the management into keeping to their promise to reinforce the wall, in addition to many other things they have to do like have a flood warning system in place, train the guards on how to respond in similar situations in the future.
In the meantime, my car and my father's car is this still in the workshop being assessed for damages and price is still not known. Hopefully there will be good news.
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Carol,
Just to share with you. My brother-in-law was also affected, too. His Camry and Suzuki Sports were all totaled. My brother-in-law said that Mr Tong gave RM250,000 to be shared by all residents affected by the flood. Mr. Tong promised to fill up the holes in the back wall and strengthen it (don't know if it will do any good as the wall looks filmsy and may collapse if there is another major flood. He said that an early warning system may be set up (didn't read this in your blog). Anyway, I sympathise with the loss you have incurred.
already fixed your car?
My fren stay in this condo too and hit with the flood as well.
My car is still not fixed yet. Thanks
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