Your Rain Experience Back  Thu Oct 27 18:37:20 2005 Name: Shanmuga Sundaram N Email: shan.amrita@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: I am from Bangalore, I had bad experience in City, during raning Heavy traiff in city to cross 5km by bus it took around 55 min. Usally it will take 15 min Max. As well as water on the Road look like small river passing in the town. Really it was bad experience from my side Thu Oct 27 18:41:05 2005 Name: Albert Email: albertraj16@gmail.com Rain Experience: It was a horried experence since I am a marketing guy and work for an media co, As you know that we guys have to be on the field always and as I live in Bangalore you would have read about bangalore, I cannot blam the govt totaly for the lapse in Infrastructure I fell the govt should promote secondary cities like Mysore, Hassan, Mangalore and Hubli etc,telling the new investors in IT and IETS industry to set up shop in these secondary cities of karnataka where they can get skilled manpower it is the time to try talent from these palaces which has a large no of Engg colleages and educational institutations and not depend upon Banglaore which is over grown in all sence population, vechical population Etc and its bad out in Bangalore and the lake bed areas which were places where rain water used to flow and get collectd where lot of illegal constructions have come up and bangalore which was a wonderful place to live has become choicatic costly to live I request the IT majors to logg out of bangalore and logg in to new places, and help the people liveing in bangalore to live a peaceful life and it was really diffuclt for the common man to suffer in a bangalore which was once a lovely place. Thu Oct 27 18:41:28 2005 Name: basavaraj Email: basu_rs@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: hi my name is basavaraj i am staying in kormangala out side my house every where water is there from 48 hrs no one has came here only, the polticien show the photes where the water is less Thu Oct 27 18:52:31 2005 Name: akshay Email: bhandariakshay@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: storm!..whats the bet there won't be one... Thu Oct 27 18:53:10 2005 Name: Prasad Babu D Email: prasadbabu_donda@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Just simple.... I actually enjoyed the rain during my travel to office today. Usually it takes 1 Hr 30 min to 2 Hrs to commute.. But today, it took 6 Hrs for me to reach office ( located in Tambaram Santorium ) South Chennai.. from my home ( located in Old washermenpet ) North Chennai (approx 35 KM distance). As usual, I started at around 7:20 AM from home and reached Chennai - Beach railway station at around 8 AM. (Usually it takes just 10-15 min to reach).... The Railway Officials were anouncing that trains will stand cancelled for some hours due to tracks immersed under 1-2 feet water..... Luckily, i got into a bus that goes to Tambaram at around 8:30 AM and reached office around 1:15 PM..... Between Saidapet Bus Stop and Guindy round tana ( a stretch of 1.5 KM ), it took 2 Hrs 15 min to cross this stretch... and that's the horrible part of my travel today..... Usually, it takes 5-10 min to cross this place. Now in office, not planning to go home for today. May be will go to my friends place near by... After so long, Chennaiites are remembered by the rain gods... and most chennaiites welcome it... Thu Oct 27 19:01:55 2005 Name: maruthakumar Email: maruthakumar@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Personally Me and my friends were kept @ bay @ work, @ play, @ shopping and many a activity. Invariablly, vegetable prices keep raising, travel becomes a bigger difficulty, mud and slush finds its way into our houses, we are awaiting epidermic. I suggest, this a bigger lesson for government and individuals. Government to put more mind into planning. Build more lakes to save this water, proper drains, and also have soaking pits along the roads, in parks, in almost every building. Individuals to keep away from directly or indirectly pushing. ( say avoid building houses in low lying areas, Building or blocking drains etc. ) Thu Oct 27 19:28:41 2005 Name: Vijayachandran Email: vijaychandran@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Kudos to Bangalore and the Construction Agencies ------------------------ My apartments has a basement parking which got flooded as the water gushed in from the next compound braking the compund wall. Two cars including mine was been drowned completely. Fireforce was called in to pump out the water at 7:00pm and they had to continuously pump it till 4:30 am. Now my car is at the service center with another 25 of them waiting for their turn to be cleaned and dried. So like most of the Bangaloreans my Diwali is also spoilt..:( Thu Oct 27 19:35:23 2005 Name: Kamlesh Email: kamlesh2000@yahoo.com Rain Experience: Its bad to see Bangalore city with such problems. I am personally not much affected, but i feel that the Government must improve the infrastructure and provide proper drainage systems. Secondly, the public must be well educated about the infrastructure. When there are no rains, we find more waste material in drainages. This causes main problem for smooth water flow. The public should be educated to keep the city neat and clean. And for those places where there is no proper drainage, the Govt should provide one. Its the people + Govt who can together help such situations. Thu Oct 27 19:47:48 2005 Name: anil kumar Email: anil_kumar71@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Rain Rain Go away come again some other day.You are so furious and make us suffer. you are flodding the streets and make people to shift to releif camps. No drinking water and very small food packets. oh Lord Varuna show some mercy . We at chennai are singing Rain Rain Go Away Come again Some other Day. Thu Oct 27 19:52:29 2005 Name: Dhiraj Email: dhiraj_sinha@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: I think common man is to blame more than the government for this predicament. If people understand that throwing garbage in open drains is going to hit them back, it will solve the problem. Also, if they maintain some traffic sense while negotiating water logged roads, it will help the traffice a lot. People just don't have civic sense and expect government to do everything for them. Why can't the shopkeepers on Hosur road in Bangalore spend 100 rs per month and get the drains in front of their shop cleaned - the way they clean their shop? Thu Oct 27 19:56:45 2005 Name: SMK MENON Email: smkmenon@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: I am a resident of Pai Layout Off Old Madras Road, Tuesday evening was the worst nightmare. While bringing the children home from school, we were caught in a deluge on the highway, but yet managed to reach the 1st main road of Pai Layout here the water level was much higher and the current was swift. The vehicle (a Maruti 800) stalled and water entered the car. The children were very frightened so I had no other way but to abandon the car on the middle of the road. Some time later I returned to the car with a friend to try and push it somewhere safer. There was hardly anybody on the road to seek help it was very cold standing in knee-deep water when it started to rain again, we managed to push the car for couple of meters. Suddenly a stranger walked towards us and offered to start the vehicle. I gave him the key and he started the vehicle with some pushing the car moved in the water, he drove some distance and parked the vehicle on a driveway. I requested him if he can take the vehicle till my house, despite the fact that he had waded through the water for quite a distance in the rain, he readily agreed. He drove the car through the water and took the vehicle till my house gate, he kept the engine running and advised me not to switch off at least for an hour. The Good Samaritan refused to accept some money offered to him for his kindness. I learnt that his name is Vijay and he works for TCS. He had come to Pai Layout to drop his boss. He waded back through the waters to the main road with a smile. I felt sorry that he had to cover the distance twice for my sake. But I am happy that I came across a good-hearted soul during the deluge. Thank you once again Mr.Vijay. SMK MENON Thu Oct 27 20:11:52 2005 Name: raash_kumar Email: raash_kumar@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: i went to my grandma's house in madipakkam. while i was returning home i got stranded in a railway gate for atleast 3 hours. because a tree fell down on a train and the railway gates did not open. Thu Oct 27 20:14:08 2005 Name: Phani Bhaskar Email: pbnadella@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: We often refer our IT industry with that of USA. Even rains have unleashed that similarity...after hurricane rita,katrina,willma...and we after tsunami,mumbai in august and now ...something to do with raingods ! I remember 'The day after tommorow' movie whenever i experience horrifying floods ! Its the Supreme's plan and only HE can change or else some divine person in human form can ? - i suspect !!!! Thu Oct 27 20:16:46 2005 Name: Raj Sundar Email: e_rajsundar@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: I have lived in this city for more than 18 years. The drains were cleared last time around but the pictures don't reflect the state of a proper drain channel in chennai. Will the government just trun a blind eye to this, just because it rains ocassionally ? There are close to 15 subways in the city and every time it pours it fills it up. Did they ever plan before building it ? Thu Oct 27 20:20:08 2005 Name: shashidhar Email: shashiayyappa@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: It is a great adventure to face this heavy rain today. I was taken by surprise to see very huge tree falling just 2 feet infront of me near EWRE building in IIT Madras. By god's grace I had a miraculous escape. Thu Oct 27 20:26:40 2005 Name: Rajaneesh Vilakudy Email: vilakudy@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: A flooded Chennai existed only in my dreams. Though I am not living in Madras now, I can imagine people rubbing their eyes in disbelief. I lived in Chennai for eight years - the best eight years in my life despite all the shortcomings which people grumble. But I have not such rains. Maybe for an entire generation, this will be a difficult situation to deal with. Maybe, Chennai will not get rains for another two years as it has received much this time. May Madras tide over the murky waters.... Thu Oct 27 20:29:17 2005 Name: Rajasekaran Email: roselover123@gmail.com Rain Experience: Well Well Well... As an average office-goer I ventured into the Office Bus today in spite of rumors of a public holiday... It all started then: inundated roads, drenched citizens... Oh God wats worng with Chennai ??? Its been almost a decade since it rained in Chennai leave alone floods... The Rain Gods finally smiled at Chennai, Mumbai's poorer cousin... As a part of Chennai's million strong IT community, I too had my share to get into the progressive IT Highway (An Old Road that leads to Mahabalipuram dotted with IT Majors and rechristened as IT Highway)... Right from the start my 1.3 megapixel camera twinned with my mobile was at work... Any free lancer wud have envied my Clicks ! Water, Water, Water its everywhere... The pallikaranai marshlands was defaced and it was wearing the mask of the Bay of Bengal... The Roads everywhere for a change looked like navigable waterways... For an average Chennaite these are unprecedented !!! A city known for its water scarcity didnt know what it cud do when surplus water encircled it... Finally the eventfull day ended with a journey back home that started @ 15:15 hrs IST and ended at 18:45hrs IST... Yup the traffic was its best nothing moved at all except for the running water and floating garbages ! Thu Oct 27 20:37:38 2005 Name: srinivas Email: compmanic@yahoo.com Rain Experience: The state government true colours are shown by the rain Thu Oct 27 20:55:50 2005 Name: Atul Mathur Email: atulmathur@yahoo.com Rain Experience: It ridiculous to consider India as the next superpower when we cant take care of our own people. I as a citizen of India demand a decent living for the taxes i pay and i certainly ask for accountability from the administration, governance whatever nonsense we have presiding over us. We need to institutionalize Capital punishment for the corrupt politicians, officers, businessmen who are looting away this country blind and filling up their coffers. Shame of these bastards where their own bretheren suffer in agony of no basic amenities. In the name of petty political gains these rascals are pitting common folk against each other and taking a swipe at our money. Its time there was a citizen action to throw out these rascals out of their seats and assume control of our destinies. I think thats what Swaraj is supposed to mean, not been governed by idiots who are busy looting you and me. Thu Oct 27 21:11:12 2005 Name: Ganapathi subramanian Email: raja_knpl@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Hi, I am working in a private office in chennai parrys.Today morning i am started at 7.30 Am. There is no train from tambaram to beach.I am coming by bus upto kodambakkam.After that i have swim in the water and walk up to 2KM in the water and catch a another bus to parrys.Finally i have reached my office after 4 hours.It's different and danger experience. Thu Oct 27 21:38:23 2005 Name: rajendraa Email: sheelashiraj@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: why dont yu think positive?yu seem to want negative stories.this is called sensation mogering. considering past experience,this year in chennai the rains were better handled,the government better equipped and definitely more pro-active. hats off to the chennai city people and the tamilnadu government Thu Oct 27 21:49:49 2005 Name: Rakesh Email: krrakesh5@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Oh it is very bad yaar the condition shere in chennai.Actually i am first time seeing this flood and all..Our house is under water.Waterlevel is upto our knees.So,we r staying in ofice this night.bad luck,we were planned to go to kerala tomorrow.But due to train cancellation,that plan also alas!pray for us Thu Oct 27 21:50:13 2005 Name: Sunil Email: issars@gmail.com Rain Experience: Hats off to the police and the local population. Driving through the 100ft road they were there to guide us through the deepest portions and even had time to see some humor in the situation. Thu Oct 27 21:55:46 2005 Name: Lokesh, IIT MADRAS Email: lokesh08@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: Had great fun drenching in rain.. what with our campus lake getting huge inflows and all culverts full with gushing water..sippin hot coffee overlooking the library building was a great experience... in short.. rain relieved a lot of pain....loved it and still counting... :) Thu Oct 27 21:59:19 2005 Name: Damodaran.T Email: damu_t@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: We are staing in a fairly well planned layout in Old madras road with about 1200 flats paying taxes to the government. for the last 2-3 years we are experiancing extreme problem of flooding in the roads( we dont have roads but i dont know what to call them) Water flows from the nearby lake whose sluice valve gets opened when it rains. we are then flooded with knee deep water for abouut 2-3 days till the rain gets over. Ca govenence be so cool to such peoples problems. Even the chiefminister visited the place long back but why only he knows??? god only saves us that is the fate of People staying at pai layout Thu Oct 27 22:30:25 2005 Name: anu Email: anu@yahoo.com Rain Experience: wowwwwwwww rains r beautiful!i love it!ta da. Thu Oct 27 22:52:47 2005 Name: rahul Email: rahulchakravarthy_iitm@yahoo.com Rain Experience: water everywhere Thu Oct 27 23:06:03 2005 Name: kamesh Email: kam2k@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: From morning 7am , I looked for a chance to go office. But never got a chance to step out. Finally at 12pm outof compulsion taken auto, wondered that every street became like a stream. Really never seen such rain for long duration in chennai in past 4 years. Thu Oct 27 23:42:02 2005 Name: umesh bhardwaj Email: vardhmanmedicare@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: My nephew was supposed to leave chennai on 28th morning by I.A. flight at 9.55 AM but was unable to reach airport even by starting from Padi at 6 am in the morning. He reached airport at 2 pm and flight had already departed. It is hard for him now to attend the family function of DEPAAWALI at Delhi now. Super power can not handle rain. Thanks Bhardwaj U. Delhi Fri Oct 28 01:15:08 2005 Name: outsource client Email: outsource@gmail.com Rain Experience: the development team working on my project (US company) didn't come to work. Project is now behind schedule :( Fri Oct 28 02:09:25 2005 Name: JJ Email: x@y.com Rain Experience: India rocks. It has excellent infrastructure, people not to worry any more. Jai Hind Fri Oct 28 04:39:01 2005 Name: vj Email: vjven2@rediffmail.com Rain Experience: i am just reading these havoc happening in chennai, we guyz are living here in melbourne and are deeply depreesed and worried about the family situaation there!! LETS PRAY GOD TO KEEP SOME RAIN OFF NOW AND BRING IT NEXT YEAR POSITIVLEY! CHEERS Fri Oct 28 07:49:13 2005 Name: sreeram Email: ramrobby@yahoo.com Rain Experience: This is shreeram from Mumbai. We know the experience what we faced on 26th of July. I am very much sad that it had occured to my favourite place Chennai and Banglore. I am very much hurt and my feelings are with the rain affected people of Chennai and Banglore. Back