The monsoon surprised everyone by arriving 10 days in advance this year. We had just enough to normal rainfall in the past decade and this year the black cloud seems to have stayed over Chennai and Tamilnadu.
The 2nd week of October saw the arrival of North East Monsoon, the only rainy season on the eastern coast of India. It was Mumbai earlier in the year that got badly hit by the South West Monsoon in June and now the epicenter seems to be moving closer to Chennai. A few planetary movements predict Chennai to be hit by 2 cyclones this year. Infact the Almanac (Panchangam) has clearly pronunced the dates for such a happening. Nov 10-15 and Dec 10-15 window will keep Chennai afloat.
We've received approx. 70 cms rainfall in the past 2 week which is 90% of the total rain that Chennai receives during Oct- Dec monsoon cycle. We have another 45 days of monsoon and I am sure we are going to be wet, cold and soggy. Gone are the high and dry days when the dark
cloud cover teases you and skips over Chennai and keep going northward.
The spirit of Diwali hasn't gone down by a bit. Hoards of people still step out of their house when the downpour abates and then T-Nagar the retail capital of India gets hit by the swarm of shopping bees. Iti s definitely a dull season for fireworks with incessant rains.
Some low lying areas are water logged and but we need not worry about trees falling in Chennai. With the advent of software boom in Chennai the ecological cover was damaged long back leaving nothing for the rains and storms.
Tsunami shelters were hit badly in the rains and people have to evacuate shelters. Christmas started last year with Tsunami, then we saw the quake in Iran and Afghanistan, floods in Mumbai, hurricane season in US, and quake in Himalayas and now rains in southern India.
The temple town of Trichy is innundated with cauvery in spate. Karnataka receiving excess rainfall this year and cauvery is filled to the brim. She is dancing from bank to bank threatening to swallow a lot of lives. The life line of Tamilnadu, Cauvery now is moving fast like a suicide bomber. Lord Ranganatha is simulating what it is like to be in PaarKadal (Ocean of Milk) and Lord Jambukeshwar is doing tapasya under water (Pancha Bootha Kshetram - temple for water, one of the five elements in nature).
Mettur, the reservoir on Cauvery is all filled up to the brim and worrying about the inflow and possible breakage of the dam, officials have released the water. While delta regions have been receiving good rainfall. Cauvery is merrily dancing bank to bank like a stripper while rest of the Tamilnadu neither can enjoy nor can cry.
Autos still make a fortune, they charge a premium to wade to the knee deep water and get you to work. GN Chetty Road in T-Nagar had 4 feet high water from the rains. A few pictures here were taken in Mount Road, Chennai's downtown area.
Roads were kind of empty this morning, only buses were plying that too with very less frequency. Autos as always were out there hopping like frog and the little exhaust pumping enough smoke to choke to you death.
Nobody can see your tear when it rains, all you can do it wail and create noise. I am doing that online this morning.......
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