A Taman Sri Semantan resident, Nurul Shafiqah Shahrin, 23, said the situation was making it difficult for flood victims to get food, mineral water, blankets, pillows, clothing, diapers and infant formula.
She said she and three of her family members had to leave their home on the top floor of a shophouse but were not given a place at the SK Mentakab Jaya relief centre because it was full.
“For the time being, we are staying at a friend’s home which is not flooded.
“There are people sleeping on the roadside. Even victims at relief centres don’t have enough supplies,” she said when contacted by Bernama.
Her posting about the pleas for help by flood victims at Taman Sri Semantan went viral on social media earlier today.
A Taman Sri Kemuning resident, M. Ramesh, 37, said he had to walk 4km and wade through chest-high flood waters to buy rice.
“The sundry shop near my house does not have rice, the main road is flooded. A friend said rice was still available here, so we walked all the way,” he said, adding that residents in the housing area needed help after being stranded even though their homes were not flooded.
Meanwhile, a survey by Bernama in Taman Temerloh Jaya today found that several sundry shops had run out of stock for essential items such as bread, flour, sugar and milk, while other items were in short supply.
Thousands of residents in the area, including Taman Temerloh Jaya Indah and Taman Temerloh Makmur, were stranded as all roads are flooded.
Meanwhile, in Shah Alam, donations of clothing for flood victims in Taman Sri Muda, Section 25 are no longer needed, said Selangor disaster emergency management operations manager Shehdi Hazrik Shamsudin.
He said, however, his team, which is an associate partner under the welfare department, was still accepting items like dry food, mineral water, instant noodles, personal care items, disposable diapers and formula milk.
“We do not need clothes because we have a lot of them. Now, it has become a dumping ground here.
“We appeal to everyone to stop sending used clothes. Our focus now is on food aid such as biscuits, instant noodles, dried food,” he told reporters at the aid collection centre in Taman Sri Muda today.