Cars stranded. Shops in deep water. Cattle tied... and will die if no one opens them before the water rises. Children enjoying their new found swimming pools...and adults walking already with baggage on their heads...knowing perfectly well where this is all going to go. Deja Vu..... well.... Lets just call it - not learning from our mistakes.
the plastic that clogged all drainage last year is still there. In brighter colors this year...if thats possible. The roads....full of puddles, open man holes, sidewalkes completely submurged... its already happened. And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is to know that today was nothing but the very FIRST day of the rain..... the next four months...well lets not even try to imagine!
And the people who are supposed to make it all work.. the speeches...the contingency plans...well NOW would be a good time to get those into actions. Or were they just those...plans... will we have to wake up to more morning papers that have 20 cows.....dead because they couldnt escape..not with their necks tied to a post..and will we have to worry endless hours for family to get home...and only worry because networks will be out..and batteries wouldnt last...
Didnt worry about a lot of these coz we were thinking....the contingency plans were in place. They were all great...up untill ofcourse it actually began to rain!first published:May 31, 2006, 20:44 ISTlast updated:May 31, 2006, 20:44 IST
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They had me... they had me up untill the point they said..."we're prepared....what happened last year is all in the past...the deluge is long gone. this monsoon is for the cutting chai and the bhuttas....." they had me...up untill the point that we decided to anchor from outside the studio. And then reality struck.
Cars stranded. Shops in deep water. Cattle tied... and will die if no one opens them before the water rises. Children enjoying their new found swimming pools...and adults walking already with baggage on their heads...knowing perfectly well where this is all going to go. Deja Vu..... well.... Lets just call it - not learning from our mistakes.
the plastic that clogged all drainage last year is still there. In brighter colors this year...if thats possible. The roads....full of puddles, open man holes, sidewalkes completely submurged... its already happened. And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is to know that today was nothing but the very FIRST day of the rain..... the next four months...well lets not even try to imagine!
And the people who are supposed to make it all work.. the speeches...the contingency plans...well NOW would be a good time to get those into actions. Or were they just those...plans... will we have to wake up to more morning papers that have 20 cows.....dead because they couldnt escape..not with their necks tied to a post..and will we have to worry endless hours for family to get home...and only worry because networks will be out..and batteries wouldnt last...
Didnt worry about a lot of these coz we were thinking....the contingency plans were in place. They were all great...up untill ofcourse it actually began to rain!
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