It has been a couple of nasty stormy nights with winds up to 50kph (or higher) ripping through the eastern coastal cities and towns in Sabah and Sarawak. It all started sometime on Friday (9th May) evening with sudden strong winds wrecking chaos and havoc in Oil Town.
Oddly, it only occurs around 5-7pm, and lasts less than 30 minutes but the damage is uber. Cruising through the area to see the damage with buddies (the wind subsided, but it was still raining, lightly), we counted 20++ big BIG trees were uprooted (we cruised from Senadin to Permyjaya, then to Pujut to Lutong then back to Senadin). A dozen of signboards were gone and some unfortunate drivers and riders were involved in accidents.
As of 14th May, Shell Sabah issued another storm warning after a storm hit Sabah and Bruneian coast around 5.30pm. Fortunately Oil Town received the 'tail' of the storm, and the effect was minor. Today, 15th, it was just a bit gusty (still strong though) and hopefully Typhoon Rammasun (the typhoon causing all these freak strong winds) will pass by Borneo soon.
Anyways here's a little boring story that happened during the stormy week.
So The Fool was coming back from Labuan after a trip from KK on the weekend, and the h3666 residents have to go to the airport to greet and bring him back home to Senadin. A stormy 30 minutes drive, so we decided to go grab something to eat at e-Mart.
Since The Fool's flight will be arriving at 7.45pm we waited patiently, only to find out the flight from Labuan was delayed. So we waited for for the flight's next estimated arrival at 8.35pm.
At 8.35 there's no sign of The Fool. We received a call from him, and I was expecting the expected; he missed the flight. Bakasaru... all those times we wasted wading through the storm for this... we love you too Fool...
Oddly, it only occurs around 5-7pm, and lasts less than 30 minutes but the damage is uber. Cruising through the area to see the damage with buddies (the wind subsided, but it was still raining, lightly), we counted 20++ big BIG trees were uprooted (we cruised from Senadin to Permyjaya, then to Pujut to Lutong then back to Senadin). A dozen of signboards were gone and some unfortunate drivers and riders were involved in accidents.
As of 14th May, Shell Sabah issued another storm warning after a storm hit Sabah and Bruneian coast around 5.30pm. Fortunately Oil Town received the 'tail' of the storm, and the effect was minor. Today, 15th, it was just a bit gusty (still strong though) and hopefully Typhoon Rammasun (the typhoon causing all these freak strong winds) will pass by Borneo soon.
Anyways here's a little boring story that happened during the stormy week.
So The Fool was coming back from Labuan after a trip from KK on the weekend, and the h3666 residents have to go to the airport to greet and bring him back home to Senadin. A stormy 30 minutes drive, so we decided to go grab something to eat at e-Mart.
After stuffing ourselves we drove The Fool's car (yeah he asked h3666ers to keep it safe) to the airport. At the airport, it was strangely quiet, either because there's not much night flight to Miri or because of the storm.
Since The Fool's flight will be arriving at 7.45pm we waited patiently, only to find out the flight from Labuan was delayed. So we waited for for the flight's next estimated arrival at 8.35pm.
At 8.35 there's no sign of The Fool. We received a call from him, and I was expecting the expected; he missed the flight. Bakasaru... all those times we wasted wading through the storm for this... we love you too Fool...
2 comments:
funny one dude...hahahha....
Ale, my mum complain it's hot in kampua town, how people start help create jerebu again there. Am death cold here, what happen to autumn!! Last year melb skip spring now skip autumn pula!! no... one of my fav. season... i hope that's does not mean summer gonna be earlier again, it did last longer, usually it's nice and cool at march but this years darn hot around that period, now it's snow up in the mountain edi in melb. Global warming effect?!
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