Rajagopal Sir and Garvo Gujarati Sir. Thanks very much for your kind words. Family and myself are safe. As you have rightly pointed out it is once in like once in 100 years. The quantity of debris thrown on the road is mind boggling.
Really worried about TK. May be he is out on the streets doing relief work and social service.
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Location: God's own country
Posted on: 15-12-15 02:15:02
Sirs :
I am safe. I escaped to the nearby state of Kerala, a month before the Chennai rains. I am going to Chennai during Christmas (25th) to take stock of the situation.
We saw some really bad images on TV. However, all my friends / classmates / family members were safe. None were affected much. So it looks like only 10 % of Chennai was affected and people zoomed into that area and stated that 99 % was affected.
In the water logged area, RE prices has dropped by 20% to 40 %. In the high areas, RE prices have escalated by 10%.
Murali
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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.
Post the "apocalyptic" floods, many stories are now emerging from Chennai. Some are absolutely tragic. The scale of destruction was monumental. They have still not assessed the true damage. Do not go by govt. figures, they mean zilch. Worse is yet to come, if the diseases are not quickly controlled.
A branch of my family lives in Chennai. Most were ok. One family had a close shave. They were stuck in their home and had to be rescued by Army, after the son had to beg them to rescue his parents. This calamity did not discriminate. The rich, the poor and the middle-class, everybody got blitzed by the floods.
In one of the top Hospitals in Chennai, MIOT (I believe it is supposed to be one of the leading Forex earner among all hospitals in India), 18 patients died when the ventilators, powered by generators(both, main and backup) installed in the basement went kaput after the getting flooded by rainwater. This was for only one section. Fortunately, other gen sets in the basement were ok.
A lot of banks/financial institutions in Chennai have their safety-deposit boxes in the basements. With flooding, many expensive jewelry pieces have become worthless. Many property-deeds and legal-documents destroyed beyond recovery. Expensive real-estate will take a real beating and residents are worried about their properties. Industries will move out of the city, as they cannot risk another calamity like this. The scale of destruction has not been truly portrayed by our national-media buffoons. As usual, they were Delhi-centric, cricket/Bollywood oriented and busy with silly political antics. Yet again, they have proven to be irrelevant, in fact detrimental to the real work that was needed to be done.
Black marketing was ripe. Milk and baby-formulas were hoarded from rescue teams and resold at heavily marked-up prices. Mumbaikers were much more community-oriented during their time of reckoning with the floods in 2005. Don't know if it will the same, if god forbid, it were to happen today.
While the rescue workers were busy, it was business as usual in liquor shacks. Shanties were well-lit, even with lanterns, and the liquor was flowing. Business was good. The Dravidian parties have completely destroyed the social fabric of TN.
Location: Western Hemisphere
Posted on: 15-12-15 14:10:02
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Originally posted by elmer fudd
Industries will move out of the city, as they cannot risk another calamity like this.
The same industries who might scurry away were probably the ones in cahoots with the corrupt politicians bribing their way to build on flood plains and everywhere else where water was supposed to drain away.
Sad, but will anything change? Time will tell.
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Dimple2001
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Sad, but will anything change? Time will tell.
Your guess is as good as mine
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