The weather on the day of July 31 was actually ominous from the morning but that feeling was there somewhere deep in my soul. The realization finally struck me only when I reached on the border of the home-city late in the evening & found out that whole city is flooded & there's no vehicle to reach home.
The first sign was my bike which was submerged almost completely under water along with all other vehicles in the parking lot. City buses had stopped services few hours back, auto rickshaws had emptied their gas tanks & all gas stations were closed due to water flooding everywhere.
So after confirming that there was no way to reach home crossing 9 KM of completely flooded city, I booked a room at the nearest hotel on the highway. Adding to the misery of city, power was cut down in most parts due to water entering power stations. After dinner, I tried but could not sleep whole night due to wet cloths but still got out of bed around 6 in the morning, took a walk outside, had tea at outside shop.
On realizing that there's deep waters everywhere in the city which will take time to recede, I caught the first bus back to my workplace to stay there. That was not a difficult decision to make as I had to stay few nights at work in the past year & I had all my gear ready there to get me through 2-3 days.
On realizing that there's deep waters everywhere in the city which will take time to recede, I caught the first bus back to my workplace to stay there. That was not a difficult decision to make as I had to stay few nights at work in the past year & I had all my gear ready there to get me through 2-3 days.
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