August 1, 2005 | Saakshi O. Juneja |
‘Mumbai the new Venice’…a popular SMS is apprently doing rounds in Mumbai since the flooding :
“Thank you BMC. Thank U CM. So what if you did not convert Mumbai into Shanghai. U did one step better by converting Mumbai into Venice.”
So this is what the tourists and locals would have to use as means of transport instead of cars and buses. Cool Na !!!
August 1, 2005 | Saakshi O. Juneja |
‘WOW’…its been raining like crazy for the past 48 hours now. And here i am sitting at work, cause we have a big presentation coming up this weekend in New Delhi. However, i am the only one present at work…since the whole city has been put on HIGH ALERT by the government officials.
Yesterday, my brother left for Dubai for business meetings. It was raining heavily then too and his flight was delayed only by 2 hours..which is much better then what has happened to many other flight passengers…both domestic and international. On our way to the airport we saw lot of improvement in respect to the flood situation handling by the BMC and the POLICE FORCE.
BMC workers were seen cleaning up the pile of garbage that had gathered in and around JUHU SCHEME. Police patrolling vehicles seen practically every 10 mins. Most of the areas, electricity had been restored. Though KALINA & SANI NAKA are still without WATER AND ELECTRICITY. Regular updates were being posted on TV and RADIO. Flights in and out of Mumbai have started again and the trains are also working.
So it seems that the Government has finally got its act together and started to put the MUMBAI DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN into action. However, i am sure most of the Mumbai feels that it has happened to late. But then come to think of it, its ‘BETTER LATE THEN NEVER’.
However TODAY is a different story,the rainfall is much more heavier and regular then yesterday and most of the low-lying areas have been again filled up with water. Trains are again effected and so are the flights. On the brighter side i did see POLICE CARS patrolling on the roads and the BMC workers cleaning up in MIDC, Andheri East. Lets hope they continue doing their work.
According to the officials :
Beginning July 31, Mumbai has again been in the grip of incessant rains.
At 10.30 am today, 150 mm of rainfall had been recorded in Santa Cruz and 100 mm in Colaba.
Many parts of the suburbs are under water. These include
Veera Desai Road and JP Road, Andheri
Linking Road, Bandra
SV Road beyond Andheri
Dadar TT Circle
Low-lying areas of Matunga
Hindmata at Parel
Low-lying areas of Powai
Thakur Village in Kandivili
Low-lying areas near the Western Express Highway in Goregaon and nearby streets.
Bandra-Kurla complex is flooded and should be avoided.
There is waist-high water at Nehru and Dixit Roads in Vile Parle East.
Chalo bhai i better leave for home now, getting calls from my mother and best friend to leave straight away. Apparently, the MAHARASTHRA GOVERNMENT has warned of ‘HIGH TIDE’ along with even more heavier rainfall for the next 24 hours. So its no time to ACT BRAVE…cause i don’t think i can survive the long walk like the one on 26th JULY once again.
July 29, 2005 | Saakshi O. Juneja |
This is a TRUE STORY narrated to me by my Product Manger, Mr. Satpal Singh. I thought its simply an amazing tale to share with you guys.
On 26th July around 3.30 in the afternoon, Mr. Singh was stuck at Andheri station. He was on his way from city to our office in M.I.D.C, Andheri East. It had been raining heavily for quite some time now. His assistant was able to get thru his cellphone and inform him about the conditions at our work. And advised him to go back home. He had just got out of the station, when it started to rain real hard. So he took shelter on a platform under the station bridge. Next to him was a book seller, who had laid his book on a small cart and covered them with thick plastic sheets. Obviously no one would look to buy a book in this weather and with nothing much to do…he and Mr.Singh started talking.
After some time a family joined them on the platform. The family consisted of a very thin man fully drenched in the rain, his wife, a son and a small infant along with an aged mother. It seemed that they belonged to the nearby slum area.
The bookseller happened to know the man, on seeing him and his family shivering in the cold weather, he asked him a question ‘ RAAT KO KYA KARO GE??’ (what will you do at night??), to which the he instantly replied looking at the sky ‘UPER WALA HAI NA !!!!’ ( God is there).
I SINCERELY WISH THAT GOD DIDN’T LET THIS GUY AND HIS FAMILY DOWN.
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