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the wrath of god
1. it gutted me to the fullest extent, hearing the landslide tragedy
occurred less than 48 hours ago, which happens less than 10 miles from
my apartment.
2.
it gutted me, that we had a similar tragedy exactly 15 years ago, that
we faced exactly the same incident. and it takes 15 bodies or more, and
that's just reported, to essentially sacrificed themselves to death ,
all for nothing.
3. are we stupid, or just plain ignorant.
somehow i can conclude that lives are cheap. for a developing country,
lives here are cheap. since we can say malaysia is acceptably peaceful,
but it's the easiest country to die in.
4. we are not
intellectually challenged people as compared in the 70's , 80's . in
fact, we are much more complex, educated, and should learn from past
tragedies. yet we still allow these tragedies to happen.
5. do
we blame god for the landslide ? for the love of god, no . god does not
clear trees or put piles for development. god is not a civil engineer.
god is too great for that. we, at least for the past hundred years of
intellectual evolution, should have understood or at least predict this
tragedy at least in the engineering scale.
6. i'm not a
geologist, but i can observe by common sense that these can be
predicted by simply prevention. i've been to the site (bukit
antarabangsa) before, and i can just say it is simply risky. i had a
chat with one geologist said to me that ampang hills is the most
unstable structure within klang valley. and terrifyingly it's just not
only bukit antarabangsa.
7. from an engineering point of view,
by geographically bukit antarabangsa is just a part of the hills among
the hills that houses the largest water supply in the klang valley, or
the langat river. knowing that malaysia is the most wettest country in
the world (and it rains almost every day) , that's a lot of liquid to
store. generally, it does't just rain and stores to the river like a
bath tub, actually it requires a network of hills to catch rainwater so
that it will converge to a group of water paths to flow what we
essentially know as a river.
8. hills typically need trees to
support them structurally and provide flow pathways to allow the
catchment waters to flow gravitationally down. owing to the condition
whereby trees' roots are naturally branches into large networks, it is
naturally the best path providers to these waters to flow.
9.
what happens if these trees are idiotically cut down? i'm not a tree
hugger but i do know that we should not cut trees without knowing the
consequences. if the trees are cut down, these root branches would
eventually die, and leaves and branches would not able to absorb the
drop intensity of rain to allow it to absorb in the soil more
effectively.
10. the porosities and permeabilities of the soil
structure would dangerously be blocked. due to the overburden weight of
the underlaying soil on top, these soils would compacted to behave as
clays. the top soils would absorb a lot of water, while the deeper
layers would not. these top soils would be very unstable, as it stores
a lot of water, and behave like a really thick mud. you would not
realize it because it does not look like mud. in fact it looks exactly
the same soil as you would look everyday. with some grass, you would be
fooled totally.
11. these mobile wet soil layers would just
take only time for it to be physically active. until a certain water
saturation, these soil layers would not move. but then, the more
frequent the rain pours, the higher the water saturation and higher the
chances for these soil layers to move.
12. until come a perfect
day, where in fact it doesn't rain that much but it has triggered the
'critical water saturation' soil structure for it to become mobile.
when it happens, that's where we know it as a landslide. as you know,
it behaves like an avalanche: the movement of the top soil would
typically accumulate gravitationally until its energy become large
enough be come destructive, destroying everything that comes to its
path. that includes expensive bungalow lots.
13. i dare say
that the landslides can be prevented way before until it takes body
counts to occur. yes, some people or readers would say that why should
they care, or why am i so interested in landslides. well, for me it can
happen to anyone. what if, somebody you know or care, died instantly
during a landslide ? how would you react. the poor departed souls would
be fucking pissed if they realized that they died out of somebody's
wrong doing.
14. i wish that the departed souls would come
back haunt these corrupt officers starting from the jabatan tanah, and
all the way up to the politicians. let them haunt their souls and
torture them out of their very lives.