Fortunately the cyclone has moved and and the sun has come out. Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day and was actually quite hot out! It rained for over one week. I have never in my life seen so much rain, I believe we got over 21 inches of rain. There were lots of branches down but I have seen more winds in the Midwest with less damage so there must be something different with the tropical trees. I must admit it feels a bit like fall, the trees that loose their leaves are definitely loosing them. It just feels a bit strange to walk through the yard with the leaves crunching beneath flip flops!
On Friday Bhaskar and I went out to survey the damage and I was amazed at the damaged. But even as we drove the people still had smiles on there faces and were having fun in the water. Which I can't even begin to imagine what kind of bacteria must be present in the water. Today our gardener was down with a fever and I can't help think that the rain may have something to do with it. Today we went into the city and the side streets have definitely cleared up substantially. Our neighbors maid and family have moved into their spare room as their house is completely flooded. I have read of several people electrocuted when walking through water. I just can't imagine living in a hut during monsoon season (to be perfectly honest, any season). The newspaper showed ladies walking through chest deep water with belonging piled high on their heads. There were also photos of people being rescued by fisherman's boats. And of course there have been many senseless drownings occur as well as walls collapsing on people.
When Bhaskar and Sundar came to work it took them a long time as they walked through at least 2 feet of water while pushing their two wheeler. Bhaskar said on one road where the water was gushing over people were standing catching huge fish. At one point Bhaskar wore his swim trunks to work!
The really cool thing was that the kids had Cyclone days on Thursday and Friday. Although I think the tragedy in Mumbai had an affect on the decision to cancel. So we definitely enjoyed being together on Thanksgiving!
Below is a video taken by our good friends Bob and Fraser who have long drive to work. But the normal hour plus drive was much long than normal these past few days! So enjoy the video taken...they certainly weren't relaxed while the video was being made!
****This afternoon Fraser's wife Helen was telling me that the whole time Ramesh (their driver) was driving both Bob and Fraser were telling Ramesh, "Don't panic." Later that evening when they were safely home Ramesh turned to Fraser and asked , "Sir, what does panic mean?"
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Hi, you're photos are just great, they really capture the moment and what was happening around us. I especially like the one of the cow in the corner who looks to the camera as if to say...'you just check this out'! The Panic video was ace aswell!
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