Perak folk tired of yearly post-flood clean-up

TELUK INTAN: “I am getting tired of cleaning my mud-filled house due to floods every year,” groaned Rashidah Darus, one of the villagers of Kampung Batu 7 ½, Lorong Mesra in Changkat Jong here, who had just returned to her house after floodwaters subsided.

Rashidah, 32, who has been living in the area for 10 years, was forced to seek shelter at a temporary relief centre in SMK Abdul Rahman Talib along with her husband Zaini Mohd Imran, 45, and their six children when their house located near Sungai Batang Padang was inundated, with water at the neck level of an adult in some areas.