Sunday, 24 January 2016

Shock no words for floods

Chennai is far better today than it was in 2004, the next tidal surge will take a far deadlier toll on the city than the tsunami did in 2004. After many years there was a flood in Chennai. The total rainfall in and around Chennai is the highest in a past few year ago.

More than 1,000 people have lost their lives, in many areas there were under knee-deep water, boats have been pressed into service to rescue people, and many people anger over the government where they didn't take any steps forward or rescue people.

The quantum of water discharged from various reservoirs, the cancellations of train and other transport services, the real predictions of precipitation from the weather department, and the nature of the relief operations that were available were shared on a real-time basis or warn people around the city.

There were millions of volunteers helped and share their homes who are homeless in and around the city. There was power cuts for more than a 1 week. Hospitals also as shortage of power and diesel which had killed 20 during the floods. Most of them are elder people due lack of ventilators which couldn't work due to power.  

In North Chennai, there are plenty of government companies which it had major problem. Rain water took hours to drain and even some companies has more than a week and companies has too much of loss. A river near by north Chennai which has overflow into the city.

Fear of nature, rather than love for it, should be our emotion in dealing with natural processes and safeguarding ourselves. But propped by an unjustified faith in technology, modern humans have lost their awe of nature. This may be the reason why even as we get one more disaster in a same weak.

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