Another hour later went with another bike and parked
at another elevated spot and then the other bike too (I knew my friend was laughing at my extra
cautious ways) Interestingly since I am used to parking in the garage, I re-parked my bikes at a well illuminated place with CCD camera view
Being the cautious kind I did go and park my car at an
elevated spot too
While there was river water all around us, and had
submerged all the 6 buildings, it seemed to not enter our building garage, by 2145 hours our building seemingly was not under water and I decided to call it a
day as we lost power with the submergence of the transformers. And wanted to
conserve battery of phone and laptop for
the next day.
Next morning
0400 hour, I wake up to alarm calls from people and as I make my way to the front of the building , Oh OH, there is 3 -4 feet water in our staircase and my friend MuKta was
scheduled for an early morning train ( 0610) to Kolkata for judging of a photography salon
Well there was no way we were going to make our way
out of here (she isn’t the tallest) but then by 0500 I decided we should give it one last try, she grabbed her bag lightened her bag as much as she could and we were off wading though 4 feet water (waist deep) too bad no photo exists,
As we was
wading through water, her bag held high by me n she holding on to me (I think) as I felt my way out with a stick in hand, I did knock my foot a few times barring that we did
make it out of the building and ran to get into my car which was parked 500 mts away, jumped in the car, not enough time to change into dry clothes as we headed off time was 0545 by now.
Enroute to the station we did have to change routes three times as some other parts of the city was also water logged and we realized this was quiet a calamity in the city, we made it to the station with 3 minutes to spare and MuKta was off sprinting for her train,
It was only 0607 hours , the whole day stretched in
front of us
Once back home it was about trying to get
some supplies, as I was already on the dry part of the building and I realized there were no money with me as I had forgotten to
take my wallet along with, the advantage of a small city kicked in as I drove around looking for open shops
A few trees had crashed and taken some shops along with, this is my bread store.
Thankfully some friends Inderjit Singh and Riki came
through and helped me out getting supplies and water.
as did a local Tea vendor which I patronize
By 0900 hours water level was still not too low
Its 1058 hours as I stand there looking at the water
level , not much supplies can reach these people
As the day progressed the river has abated and water
level has receded
Glad to say the river seems to have gone down by a
couple of feet and I have been able to help some folks along the way too, as
the water has receded and now to wait for electricity to be restored and life
to return to normal as can be.
Quiet a bit of silt is left behind and needs to be worked on, we are doing OK and if anyone needs any help in Jamshedpur feel free to contact me thatredcar@gmail.com. 91 9831321541
Well a hard shower did do the trick for the open space
but still more needs to be done to get power and water supply restored. as I write this on 22nd morning , none of the buildings have power or water yet, yes its Tisco power and water supply, but tanks have to be cleaned and electrical system blow dried before life returns to normal.
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