The flow of traffic on the Basuki Rahmat road, kilometer 9, the city of Sorong, totally jammed and irregular on Friday morning 17 July 2020, after the city was hit by severe flooding, Thursday night.

Hundreds of two-wheeled vehicles and four-wheeled vehicles appear to be solidly creeping from the direction of being squeezed towards class, and vice versa.

Moreover, traffic is chaotic because the vehicle does not pass the correct lane as specified.

A number of motorists were even seen parking their vehicles to wait for a puddle of water as high as about 40 centimeters in front of the low tide jasmine area.

There are also motorists who choose to make a U-turn to look for other alternatives. However, a number of vehicles still try to break through puddles.

A day earlier, heavy rain accompanied by lightning for approximately 4 hours struck the area of Sorong and its surroundings from afternoon to 9 pm local time.

As a result, almost all areas in the city of Sorong were flooded. High waterlogging in several areas has made the Search and Rescue Team stand by to anticipate the worst.

West Papua's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) said the extreme weather conditions were due to a shift in the mass of air which caused comulunibus clouds.

BMKG stated, this extreme weather will still occur until the coming August.

For this reason, residents who live in landslide-prone areas are asked to be vigilant. In addition, fishermen who are active in the sea are also asked to be on the lookout for high wave potential.


Soud byte : HARI SIAHAAN (Forecaster Sorong Meteorology Agency) time code 02:12 - 02:51