The cyclone Gaja has smashed the coastal districts up to 6, and took very unusual routes into the land without
losing its strength has stroke couple of mountainous districts causing heavy downpour
and windstorms resulting in number of tree fall and landslides.
Kodaikanal – my
most visited place for vacation, where my uncle owns
wood houses and cottage –
being the core part of the cyclone, before it enters the Kerala state and
Arabian Sea shook the mountains to unlink most of the roads and many remote
villages are inaccessible still and out of electric. Even at the vicinity of my
uncle’s woodhouse and plantation, many banana trees had fell and there’s no
water or electric.
At the other hand I was wonder
what could happened to the beautiful cottage we stayed in
Kodiyakarai (PointCalimere) during our visit to the wildlife and bird sanctuary there, which was
the eye of cyclone Gaja! It’s nearly a century old tiled roof cottage; adjoin
the sanctuary and coastal line, built by Thambusamy Pillai, a sea merchant.
There’s two suites named as Pelican and Flamingo, which is popular migratory
birds of the sanctuary. I really loved this place, despite the frequent power
cuts and mosquito bites; I could see deer and peacocks turn pleasant the
moments anytime by their presence. Kodiyakarai and
Vedaranyam in Nagai district
is worst affected and almost cut off from the rest of the places, as it located
on the eastern edge of the state.
The places that are affected by
Gaja continues to fight against the debris the cyclone left back, after pulled
down many houses and destruction of livelihoods. And to make situation worse,
these places continue to receive heavy rains due to another depression at
the sea and a warning of 300 mm of rain still. However it was raining from the
morning here, more rains is expected in coming days. Hope it rains well, never
a kind of flooding, to uplift the ground water and filling of lakes to support our
city’s water scarcity. The pictures here are on the cottage we stayed at
Kodiyakarai.
