Thousands Displaced In Another Jakarta Flood; Biggest Hospital, Presidential Palace Take Hits

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Indonesians wade through flood water on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, 25 February 2020. Overnight rains caused rivers to burst their banks in greater Jakarta sending muddy water into residential and commercial areas, inundating thousands of homes and paralyzing parts of the city’s transport networks, officials said. Photo: Tatan Syuflana / AP Photo

Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia’s capital worsened Tuesday, inundating thousands of homes and buildings, including the presidential palace, and paralyzing transport networks, officials and witnesses said.

Overnight rains caused more rivers to burst their banks in greater Jakarta starting Sunday, sending muddy water up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) deep into more residential and commercial areas, said Agus Wibowo, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s spokesman.

Floodwaters entered parts of Indonesia’s presidential palace complex Tuesday morning but the situation was brought under control with water pumps, said Bey Machmudin, an official at the Presidential Office.


A woman wades through water in a flooded neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, 25 February 2020. Photo: Tatan Syuflana / AP Photo

The heavy downpour that hit the capital on Sunday had submerged the state-run Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital, the country’s largest hospital, damaging medical machines and equipment, Wibowo said. Wibowo said the floods on Tuesday inundated scores of districts and left more than 300 people homeless, forced authorities to cut off electricity and paralyzed transportation, including commuter lines, as floodwaters reached as high as 1.5 meters (5 feet) in places.

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https://desdemonadespair.net/2020/03/thousands-caught-in-floods-in-indonesias-sinking-capital-more-rain-expected-for-the-next-two-weeks-disaster-agency-head-resigns.html

[abqtommy]

1. There are also devastating floods in the U.K., Brazil and aroung the world. There are some that

deny climate change exists but the floods are here anyway...