Try flying in an aircraft with constant turbulance for 42 straight hours. That’s how it feels like travelling in a lorry for the same duration.
On Saturday 27/12/2014, our co-founder Nadhir and two co-founders of Hanass Transport Service made a trip to Kelantan to deliver flood relief supplies in collaboration with Pertubuhan Generasi Al Fateh.
This is the route we took:
We loaded two boats and a full-load of clothing. At 1am, we left KL and reached Jabor by dawn.
We took the coastal road passing Cherating, Chukai, Kerteh and Dungun before entering the East Coast Highway. At 1pm, we reached Jerteh, our next stop.
After a much-needed refuel in Jerteh, we headed west into Machang and to our final destination Tanah Merah at 3pm.
Tanah Merah was a complete chaos. Neighbourhoods were submerged under water, roads were damaged and access to cellphone lines were cut off. It was a scene worthy of a Hollywood armageddon movie.
Unloading began at about 4pm and finished at about 7pm. We said our goodbyes to the organisers and headed home.
Managed to get a pretty decent seafood dinner to commemorate the occassion too.
We proceeded on the East Coast Highway. At about 3am, near the Temerloh exit, vehicles were at a standstill. There was no way through. Water was too high even for trailers to pass.
Not knowing what do, we decided to get some shut eye for a few hours until dawn with the hope that the water would recede.
A picture of the Temerloh exit at 7am:
The only way back to KL from here was to make a big u-turn at Gambang and proceed down to Muadzam Shah-Bahau-Kuala Pilah.
This detour added another 9 hours to our travel – we finally reached KL at 4pm.
Our route looked like this going back:
A tiring experience – but a fulfilling one nevertheless.
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