Downpours cause floods across Penang

Getting creative: Students of SMK Mak Mandin in Butterworth using benches to navigate the floodwaters.

GEORGE TOWN: Some 20 houses located on a slope in Hong Seng Estate, Mount Erskine, have been flooded due to blocked underground drainage.

“Not again!” was the reaction of factory worker S. Kalaiselvi, 42, who found herself neck-deep in water at her house at 2am yesterday after a three-hour downpour.