Student volunteers: Our unsung heroes

School boys chipping in.

SK Sg Pinang, Kelantan. The mud was thick. At its deepest, just under my knees. There was a lot of it. At its highest, just over my head.

I'm not a very tall person, but the mud carried by the floods would have drowned me. It reminded me of 2004 when the tsunami hit. Homes in Kedah were inundated. People died not from the water, but by the mud. The mud left a mark along the house walls as if to say "safe if above this line".