Floods: Unpleasant start to new year for Felda Palong Satu residents

JEMPOL: For over 100 residents of Felda Palong Satu here, it was an unpleasant start to the new year when their houses were inundated following 10 hours of continuous heavy rains on Friday (Dec 31).

Palong Satu Felda Scheme Development and Security Committee chairman Johar Dollah said after 7pm on Friday, a house was affected when floodwaters rose to the waist level but later on by midnight almost half of the houses in the village were inundated.