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  • 2 months ago
While the sight of a road covered in white might have looked like a wintry scene, Shah Alam did not experience a snowstorm.

Shah Alam OCPD Asst Comm Sarudin Samah clarified on Friday (Sept 4) that the "snow" was actually a massive buildup of soap suds caused by heavy rain reacting with leftover chemical residue from a previous spillage.

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00:01Heavy rain caused leftover soap residue from a spill more than a week ago to foam up,
00:07covering a 500-metre stretch of the Shah Alam Expressway on Thursday
00:11and making the road appear covered in snow.
00:15Shah Alam OCPD Assistant Commissioner Sarudin Sama clarified
00:19that the snow was actually a build-up of soap suds
00:23caused by heavy rain reacting with chemical residue from the earlier spillage.
00:28The foam was traced to soap spilled from a lorry at the Kota Kamuning Slip Road on August 24,
00:35which had been covered with sawdust by Fire and Rescue Department personnel.
00:39Heavy rain on Thursday reactivated the remaining soap residue,
00:44creating foam across a 500-metre stretch of the Quezas Highway between km 30.0 and km 30.5.
00:52The foam caused temporary traffic congestion as motorists slowed down,
00:56while clean-up works were completed by 4.58pm the same day.

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