A resident of Kampung Menjual, Nur Fatihah Abdul Rahim, 31, said she did not expect the continuous heavy rain in the past two days to cause her home to be flooded by more than one metre.

“The last time a ‘big flood’ happened in the village was in 2014, when it was the ‘yellow flood’, but only a few houses were affected, especially in low-lying areas.

“This flood was the worst in 31 years because the current was quite strong and my house was flooded.

“My family immediately moved to the temporary relief centre at SK Kubang Batang at 2am yesterday because I didn’t want anything untoward to happen,” she said.

Meanwhile, a resident at Kampung Berangan Hujung, Nor Azuralizma Ibrahim @ Salleh, 40, said she was shocked as she did not expect the water to rise so quickly in such a short period of time.

“At 11pm last night, I saw my house compound had started to flood and within three hours the floodwaters had reached up to chest level in my house.

“My husband, Asri Awang, 52, and I had to move to the SK Berangan 1 temporary relief centre by wading through the flood for a kilometre with our children to save ourselves and we only took important documents with us,” she said.