While feeling so
happy and excited about heavy showering, along with thunderstorm last evening the
collapses of 11 storey building on the western suburb has brought down the
enthusiasm of Chennaities. It rained heavily for about an hour pulling down the
temperature as much it could, but inside the house it was a blend of hot and
cool, since it was hot until 4pm when the sky turned gray and later become dark
with clouds. I wake up my mom, warning about the dark sky and thus she happen
to collect the cloths put to dry at the backyard cord before got wet in rain.
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| (shot during rain at our front gate with 3-4"of water ) |
The wind brought
chillness through the open windows and the heavy rain created pools across our
streets, sending water into our compound which reached up to our doorstep. It was
fun watching the ripples created by passing vehicle making small waves rushing into
our house but the water reduced as soon it stopped raining. The rain emerged in huge drops making knocks with
the plastic car shelter and poured like empting the clouds with no drops left
for rest of the days. But I couldn’t go out and enjoy the water coming into our
house fearing about the thunder lightening, which was the result of the
collapses of the 11 storey building.
Eyewitness says
that as soon the thunder hit on the under construction building, it came down like
collapsed play cards. It seems there were about 100 workers on the building site
while it collapses and being Saturday, the weekly wages disbursement day, the
workers were gather on the first and second floors. With current report 11 workers have confirmed death
and more than 50 still trapped inside the collapsed building with 20 recovered as
injured. It seems thunderstorm could be just one of the reasons for collapses
guess the officials, who are yet to see others. The rescue operations are expected
to last for 2 more days with number of fire service men at work. Wish there
wasn’t rise in toll!
