September 2016, Bandung has entered the rainy season. A season with full of happiness to people who lacks of water & experiencing drought. But, some of which, might feel burdened in their own reason.
On 24th September 2016, Monday, happened a terrible flood in certain areas of Bandung. The most popular happened in Pasteur and Pagarsih. This was assumed to have been caused by the leaking dam. Our mayor, Ridwan Kamil, said that the dam was built outside of his permission.
The FIRST incident happened in Pagarsih. A peacefully parked car was pushed away by a strong flowing water who was told to have formed a new "river". It pushed away a black Grand Livina car who was owned by a showroom. The car was parked in front of a showroom when this happened. The car was pushed along Pagarsih until it goes into a ditch. But, before it goes into a ditch, the powerless pushed car hit a tricycle & both of them was lost for a moment and thankfully it is found now. Thankfully, no one was involved in the incident.
The SECOND incident happened in Setiabudi street, specifically in front of Borma department store. Ade, who was one of borma's employee, tried to help a woman --from a school across Borma --.who was floating off because of the flood. Unfortunately, Ade floated off too for about 20 meters long and was found dead inside a ditch. But, good thing the woman wasn't dead.
The THIRD happened in Pasteur. It was a great flood for 1 meter high & it caused a traffic in the intersection of sukajadi & pasteur flyover. the vehicles then was told to reroute to Sutami, up to Sukajadi & coonnecting to the region of Surya Sumantri to then enter the freeway. The motorbikes were rerouted in a different way, they were rerouted to Sukamulya and to Kebon Jeruk.
Bandung's mayor, Ridwan Kamil, is affording his best to avoid incident like this to happen again by managing the drainage system in Bandung. Hopefully, things like this won't happen anymore.
by : laurell olina / 8a / 13. (ICT)
