The City that turned into a lake..

The streets turned into rivers, cars into boats... This is no harry potter story, all this happened in singara chennai on the 27 th and 28 th november. the city bustling with activity came to an almost standstill when the tropical cyclone 'NISHA' crossed the coast and luckily or unluckily i happened to be in the city.

The rain had flooded the city streets with knee deep water. And the unlucky me was on board a bus to Nandanam. The traffic was moving at a snails pace i thought i would reach my destination faster if i walked so did many of my co-passengers and a few decided to walk. I was one among the many who decided to stay on board and wait inside the bus cos it was risky to walk in knee deep water for fear of open pot holes, fallen electric wires etc,. To add fuel to fire the governors convoy was to pass by that route and so the roads were blocked, the traffic came to an absolute standstill.

There was drama everywhere people panicking, everyone in the bus getting calls from relatives enquiring about where we were and everybody had to tell the same answer for almost one and half hours. I sat at the window watching around the traffic. As far as i could see there were only cars, autos,taxis and buses. The other half of the road, meant for traffic from the other direction was dry. Many ppl used that part of the road to check out the reason for the road block. Finally after one and half hours of waiting the governors convoy passed by and i reached my aunts place by 10 that night.

The next day i was on my way to the private bus stand and out of the flood struck city to Coimbatore . We could not find any call taxis to drop us there none of them was willing to take the risk. After searching for long we finally booked a Travera and thank god we hired a Travera. If we had hired anything else then probably we would never have made it to the bus stand in time. I could touch the water if i just dropped my hand out of the window. Many of the vehicles stopped cos water entered the exhaust. Thanks to our skillful driver. We made it in time to have our dinner at leisure and then catch our bus.