This is the apartment next to ours that got flooded. Water had entered all the ground floor apartments and they were pumping out water using the two motors the whole day. Thankfully, our apartment was built on a higher foundation and we were safe.
About a few hundred meters from my home is this place called ‘MettuKuppam’. Tranlated in english, it would mean ‘Village on a higher ground’. In reality, it was the opposite. Every street out there looked like this.
Notice how water is flowing through the streets like a river.
This is the street where the Electricity Board Office is located. It was funnily ironic that they couldn’t restore electricity to their own office.
Water has entered every home. Notice how this shopkeeper has used bricks elevate this stall.
Kids sieving the waters for fish. Don’t think they got lucky.
A tree has split into two and fallen off.
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I keep reading in the papers every other day that Chennai’s local administration has taken and will take measures to improve the infrastructure.All I read about was roads being relaid,new flyovers being built and new subways in the pipeline.In general I guess,the government has created new infrastructure without taking care of the existing one.
kiruba,, you are (one of) India’s most famous bloggers and your website must be frequented by many people. I am a very regular reader of your blog since almost 4 years and I was quite sad to see that you have not blogged anything about the tragic terrorist attack in our country.
Not that you have to(it’s your blog) or that your small post of your opinion will make a big difference but with such a popularity, you also get a bit of responsibility.
I am quite interested in knowing your opinion on how we techies can help?
Yes, it was a deluge , wasn’t it. A few gondolas, and we could have been Venice.
I have linked this post to my latest. Hope you do not mind.
Rain is one best season we could really enjoy which would also be a source of menace.
Please look into my blog where I have posted about the deluge in Trichy.
Will there be a all-party meet sponcered by Tamil Nadu CM to save the people of Tamil EElam from the floods in Vanni or Will they send MDMK chief to personally survey the damage and compare it to Chennai and declare EElam is the only solution to save the Tamils from these floods ?
Sir it has been wrongly typed as ‘tranlated’ instead of ‘translated’.
Nice post.
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