Jakarta Flood

As you might have heard, Jakarta was hit by flood over the past week. Heavy rain + Flood from neighboring areas such as Bogor and Puncak + High tide = Jakarta cannot contain it anymore. As you know/predict we don't have a good sewer/drainage system here, and trash/garbage are everywhere on the street and the gutter, so the water have nowhere to go except to overflow on the streets.

Thankful for friends who showed their care and concern for me and my family :) we are doing ok. The flood on the area where I live was entering my garage area but thank God it stopped there. However, we are surrounded by flood so we have no access in/out the main road. I was out of work for 3 days. And as much as I love my day off, I was actually wanting to go to work but I can't T.T Electricity was forced to shut off for safety because the electrical substation was flooded and we have limited supply of clean water, but thank God for my parents and my very present help in time of need: God who are with us through it all :) I'm sharing some pictures of what it looks like in front of my house:

Some area was hit pretty bad, and some are unexpected area (like the Pluit area), so a lot of them are unprepared. My relatives who live there have to evacuate themselves, because the flood was too high it's not safe anymore. Some pictures from them: (their neighbor, who doesn't wanna leave the house took these pictures for them)

in house

outside house

A lot of people in that area don't wanna leave their house and choose to live on their 2nd floor because of the unsafe environment. Some houses/mini market actually got rob T.T hearing this news make me feel really sad, I mean who would do that, don't you see they are also victim, why would you rob victims? T.T but also a good reminder about storing things that have eternal value rather than earthly things. 

Interesting thing is in the flood there are few animals found, I don't know if this for real or not, but it's dangerously cool hehehe :p

Praying for all the victims and for all of us to be God extended hands in caring for them. Jakarta still on the flood alert until January 27, or so they say, because January 27 supposedly is the highest tide on the sea and with high chance of rain, Jakarta is predicted to have another unavoidable big flood.

But thank God for even bigger God :)