Saturday, October 25, 2008

Rain is a Pain ??

Yesterday, the 24th day of October 2008, I had a terrific experience while returning back to home in the evening. I got a call from home saying that it was still raining, the area where I reside is completely flooded with waters and no vehicle can enter the road. Though I imagined the situation, I thought I could manage.



Scene 1: Raining heavily



Scene 2: With heavy laptop on hand, I was standing inside a crowd where everyone was looking to catch an auto.



Scene 3: No auto-driver was ready to carry us because of rains, water stagnation and traffic jam.



Scene 4: I won at my tenth attempt, a driver came for rescue, but said he would charge 100 bucks (you know, normally it takes 30, but they know that when demand increases, prices also increase).



Scene 5: Thought problem solved, but not really.



Scene 6: Water peeped inside the auto and struck off at one place midway through. He did some magic and got it ready.



Scene 7: Again stopped in few minutes for lack of fuel. Long queue on the nearby petrol bunk, waited for 25 minutes to get the filling.



Scene 8: Since we couldn’t take the direct route considering the road conditions, he showed me the city for 100 bucks and finally reached North Boag Road from where my home is about few minutes drive.



Scene 9: Held up in traffic and couldn’t move a little bit….it was still raining, vehicles were completely mess-up, two staff buses were facing each other blocking the entire road…



Scene 10: After waiting for 20 minutes in auto, paid him the cash and needed to walk down.



Here comes the catch,,,


- water levels on the ground were above my knee levels,
- no space to move here or there
- grounds were already in digged condition for some piping work, hence not sure which way to walk
- Few electrical wires were hanging from transformer boxes
- Many cars were struck on the roads, and couldn’t move back



Though it looks silly, the situation made me to feel whether some thing wrong will happen.



After confirming that my insurance policies are alive currently, I walked in the middle of the road on the drainage-mixed rain waters. Finally, reached home safely though my Franco Leone shoes (worth 2k INR) have lost its life.