But that big flood did not affect the 100-year-old house made of chengal, where Hasmah Mohamad, 79, had lived in at that time. “The house belonged to my mother-in-law and I later discovered that it was built without a single nail, but instead used wooden pegs. Hasmah Mohamad showing the house interior, built without a single nail, but with wooden pegs instead. Although it is now vacant, my family visits the house after the floods. She said an NGO gave her a new house in 2015 and told the family that they could not stay in the old house due to safety reasons.

Source: New Strait Times October 26, 2019 04:30 UTC