Extreme Weather Causes Flood in Jakarta

BERITAJAKARTA.COM, 26/10 - Floods causing terrible traffic jam in Jakarta yesterday, Monday (25/10), was presumably because of extreme weather change. Jakarta Administration has maximally done various efforts to cope with the flood, such as building east flood canal (KBT) and waterway normalizatihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifon. In addition, flood control equipment such as water pump has also been alerted. Extreme weather condition has resulted in the rainfall reaching 111 millimeters in just 2 hours. In fact, normally, rainfall in one month only reached 300 millimeters. This situation makes the existing drainage can not accommodate the rainfall and drain the river water properly. Consequently, the water overflows to the streets.
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