Due to climate change, one of the main roads near my home in Selangor could become flooded within a short time of heavy rain. Off hand I remember four times of the area becoming flooded the past two years.
Kenneth was walking to the nearest LRT station one day when he went back to the peninsular. It was raining cats and dogs. Even with a golf umbrella, his long pants were getting soaked by the horizontal blast of raindrops due to strong wind.
While he was tip-toeing on the pavement in between rain puddles, a small grey mouse (that was a baby size) was scrabbling away from the main road in the opposite direction. It was literally running for its life. Ten minutes later, the flood water was up to the lowest part of the windows of a Kancil car (970cc). It was then 3:30pm.
It is a good thing that such flash flood does not usually last more than half an hour. But meanwhile, the cars parked within the flood zone would be swept along by the strong current of the flood water.
Animals are usually smart enough to flee from natural disasters like flood, forest fire, earthquakes and volcano eruptions. By instinct, they would run either long before an imminent earthquake (a few days ahead) or just in the nick of time before a flood.
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