Flooding

Drizzling of rain Spreading aroma of earth Feel like dancing in rain Cooling the mind and the body. Enjoying the rain. Remembering the day of flooding The rain continued pouring for the second day. I went out in the rain as usual with colourful umbrella in hand the gusty wind came dashing and took away my umbrella. Meanwhile heavy downpour started and roads not visible as water was logged in. Bus came at the bustop I jumped in to it. Carrying a dozen of passengers the bus began moving ahead. The speed of the bus was as low as that of bicycle. Still it crawled and sudden came to halt in the midst of the road where no one around surrounded by water. We saw the water level reached upto the one step of bus then the heavy rainfall water added it more. as the water entered the bus all passenger climbed to the roof of the bus. It was midnight now and more than 6hrs we got stuck inside the bus. The downpour of rain continued and the water level reached the window of the bus. Our network was down and no one could be contacted but one message we sent successfully and waited patiently for the rescue team to come and save us. The bus began to shake we all got panicked as no one knows the swimming. Praying God we waited patiently. Morning we got up finding that we all are alive but our eyes were searching for help. The cloudburst was so strong that we couldnt see anyone. Finally by evening, we were so happy that One rescue team arrived on boat though the rainfall have stopped by afternoon, but water logging continued. finally 24hours stuck in bus was a terrible experience which is remembered on every 26/7 which washed away Mumbai. ©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY GEETHA JAYAKUMAR 2014 © 2014. Geetha Jayakumar.