It finally stopped raining yesterday evening after an almost continuous downpour since the weekend. If I'm not mistaken, these downpour which occured for days and causing floods in several areas happened every year around this time. It's the monsoon, if I remember correctly from my Geography days, is Monsoon Timur Laut (North-East). Each year we'll hear of houses being flooded and mud-filled, of people getting stranded on the road because certain sections had water level coming up. It's all the same stories and you'd wonder why is it that with all the technology and knowledge that we have, we couldn't do something to avoid or prevent such occurrences from happening. Yesterday during the heavy rain, I heard the authorities in Paka was digging up a pathway for the excess water to flow back into the sea or something like that. By right, we don't have to take up corrective actions like this while the problem is happening. It should be done during the hot season when it is easier to work rather than while water was splashing all over the place.
I really, really hope that we can learn from all these. The new leadership of Malaysia, well the head anyway, has been promoting better maintenance, integrity in our life and improved services. His foot soldiers (the ministers) were recently talking the same talk as the new boss is, understandably. Well, talking is easy and it will take more than hot air to change the mindset of a whole nation. Hell, to change a mindset of a department and company would take years and it's uncertain whether it will be successful or not after putting in millions of ringgit.
I'm totally for the new direction that the leadership is heading. I just hope that there would be longer lasting effects than just visits to government agencies and showing up at disaster areas. But politicians being politicians.......well, time will tell.