KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 — Unlike many other Kelantanese displaced by the latest wave of the seasonal flood, Nur Aimi Mohamad has been able to sleep in her own bed in her Pasir Hor home.

But the 26-year-old is far from relaxed, keeping an anxious eye on the murky, milk tea-coloured water that have consumed the houses near her own as she joined her neighbours in a solitary game to see if man or nature will triumph.

“The back of my neighbour’s house and the alley in front of my house is full of water. Water has already risen to the houses next to the taman nearby because the area is behind Sungai Pasir Hor.

“I don’t know what to do. We can’t get out of our house or walk, cars can’t even pass by anymore,” she said in a text message to Malay Mail Online when contacted yesterday morning.

She fears for the welfare of her grandmother who lives nearby, saying that her area has not been completely washed out by the flood waters, but added that the levels were rising steadily by the hour and with each passing day.

But Nur Aimi said all the main roads to Pasir Hor have been completely closed or cut off by the floods, and that most cars in the neighbourhood had been moved to higher ground, parked in rows across a flyover bridge mere minutes away from her home.

The view from Nur Aimi’s home in Pasir Hor, Kota Baru, Kelantan, December 27, 2014. — Pix courtesy of Nur Aimi Mohamad

“Since this home was built 30 years ago, this is the first time water has filled up my area.

“Its depressing... most of my friends in worse-off areas have already had to evacuate. But the water levels are still rising,” she said.

Nur Aimi’s testimony paints a dark but vivid tale of the ongoing crisis that has affected more than 100,000 people across eight states in Peninsular Malaysia.

Seven people have died so far from the ongoing flood crisis.

Despite her current situation, the Kelantan-born remains one of the few luckier ones in the state; over the past few days ten of thousands have been forced to flee their flooded homes – some with only the clothes on their back – to avoid being swallowed by the waters.

Heart-wrenching pictures, videos and stories have been circulating on popular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as Malaysians seek to highlight the desperate conditions faced by their kith and kin marooned by the floods to quench their thirst and quiet their rumbling stomachs and stay dry in the ever wet state.

In Kelantan, videos and photographs taken from aircraft within the last 48 hours show a state almost submerged with only the tops of buildings and the tall green trees visible.

Even the famous Kota Baru stadium is entirely under water.

The water level rises at Nur Aimi’s grandmother’s home.

“There is no water. There is no electricity.

“This is the worst flood and damage done to Kelantan,” Kota Baru resident Adnan Ibrahim told Malay Mail Online when contacted.

The 44-year old lives close to Pasir Hor and a mere 1.5km away from the Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital (HUSM) in Kubang Kerian, which was among the few medical facilities in the state still able to receive patients yesterday.

He said that even though Kota Baru is considered a relatively “safe area”, some areas in the state capital had been overrun by the floodwaters in the last few days.

“The problem started when my home which is near Sungai Pasir Hor heading towards Sungai Pengkalan Datu started experiencing a rise in water levels.

“My place is also considered the last safe area...(but) this area is now only two feet short of being overrun by the river tides,” Adnan said.

He described the flow of the floods as filling up drains, small rivers and low-lying ground, creating small “islands” throughout the sopping wet city.

Although food was little, supplies were still available for now at a nearby supermarket.

“I managed to get food for three days, from last night,” he said.

When asked to assess the situation in Kelantan, state Deputy Mentri Besar Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah said it was not the worst case of floods in history.

“It is not as bad the floods in 1967, but it is more serious than the floods of 2004.

“But it has definitely affected areas previously unaffected by floods,” he told Malay Mail Online when contacted, without elaborating.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday acknowledged the serious floods that have submerged much of Kelantan but insisted that there was no necessity to declare a state of emergency in the north-eastern state, saying it might impede the locals from claiming compensation from their insurance companies later.

As at 8am today, the total number of evacuees nationwide increased slightly to 97,837 from last night’s figure of 97,792.

The number displaced by the flood in Kelantan also plunged to 24,162 from 35,622 people last night as weather conditions in the state improved somewhat yesterday, although a senior meteorologist cautioned to expect another round of rain later tonight.

Terengganu’s flood refugees still stands the highest nationwide at 34,454.

The figures for the prime minister’s home state of Pahang remained unchanged since last night, at 31,058.

Flood waters have also subsided in Negri Sembilan and Kedah, allowing the evacuees to return home to begin their massive cleanup.

Penang and Malacca are the only two states out of 11 on the peninsula to be spared from the northeasterly monsoon floods so far.