‘Stormbringer’ strikes the north

Heavy rain: Residents waiting out the rain as floodwaters inundated the lower level of their home.

GEORGE TOWN: After months of a dry spell with little rainfall, residents in several low-lying areas here were hit by a storm that led to floods, landslides and uprooted trees. The victims found themselves struggling against waist-high floodwaters.

In the case of 80-year-old Abdul Razak Mydin, he said he was woken at 4.30am by a “thunderous” sound that shook his house, and he went into his kitchen to investigate.