The uprooted trees, flying and dangling roofs on power and telecommunication wires, and poor visibility terrified the locals, who had never experienced anything like it before. theSun theSundaily power Thunderstorm news news
: A ferocious thunderstorm that occurred at about 6 pm yesterday as the Muslim community was getting ready to break their fast caused major damage in Sibu town.
“I could not see anything. Traffic flow was very slow,” said Lerry Silas, a teacher who was among the Catholics going for a special mass service held in conjunction with the Holy Week prior to Good Friday and Easter Sunday this week. Sibu Municipal Council chairman Clarence Ting Ing Horh, in his Facebook posting, said that Jalan Merdeka Barat resembled a war zone with trees breaching fences of houses.
“Yes, this day was an extraordinary day, it is rare to see such fury in the weather that lasted for 45 minutes. The only bright spot is that I didn’t hear of any casualties,” he wrote about what he called a ‘typhoon-grade thunderstorm’.
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