Yeah this is my flood log. Read it and be amazed at the happeinings in the past 4 days.
26th July, 2.00 pm: Rains began. My dad comes back 2 mins later from work and he is soked. We feel that its just another rain.
26th July, 4.00 pm: Power cuts off. Im pissed cause i was studying. We know this is serious cause we never have a power cut and if we do, most of the city does and if my neighbouring colony does then there is no power in the city cause they distribute the cities power.
26th July, 7.00 pm: I get a call from my classes that lectures have been postponed.
26th July, 10.30 pm: We goto sleep without electricity.
27th July, 7.00 am: The electricity is back. Thank god.
27th July, 8.30 am: I wake up to realise we still dont have any cable on tv and our internet is down.
27th July, 11.00 am: Rain stops. 22 Hours or continous rain.
A new record with 668 mm in 12 hours which beat the previous 1974 record of 375 mm in 24 hours
27th July, 6.30 pm: My dad has to goto visit my grandmother to tell her that my aunt (fathers sister) has reached a relatives place cause my grandma’s phone is down. My aunt left her office at 5.00 pm on the 26th and reached my relative’s place at 2.00 pm the next day even though the distance is about 10 kms. The roads are totally blocked.
27th July, 7.30 pm: I goto meet my friends. They are all ok. None of their houses was flooded. (Mine wasnt as i am on higher ground. Our whole colony is slightly inclined so Phew)
27th July, 8.30 pm: I’m at a friends place who lives down the road from my place. The wall behind his bunglow is broken due to water flooding. The water flooded the neighbouring colony, broke the wall down, the water came into his house, flooded the ground floor to about knee height for 3 mins then the wall behind his house broke and the water went into the drainage pipes further down the road.
27th July, 9.15 pm: My dad’s back.
28th July, 8.30 am: I wake up. The tv is back again but still no internet.
28th July, 6.30 pm: The electricity in 3/4th of our colony is gone. I dont have electricity while the building to my left does ¬_¬
29th July, 1.19 am: The electricity is back. I was sleeping by putting my bed near the window. The electricity came and i woke up
29th July, 1.24 am: Its raining again. I just close the window and goto sleep.
29th July, 8.30 am: Thank god for news paper I find out the news.
29th July, 930 am: Tv is back. I see the news.
29th July, 12.00 noon: My internet connection is back. Phew. And im here to report this.

Over 300 people are dead in the city. And over a 1000 in the state. I have seen with my own eyes traffic jams that were as long as 15 kms. But the opposite site of traffic (on the other side of the divider … no traffic at all)
My friends and cousins who were out of their houses walked in the rain 20 kms to reach their homes. While others preferred to stay at their friends place. Today is the 1st day that everyone’s cell phones are working (mine was …. my land line was too thank god :D) cause of all the air traffic. The planes began yesterday at around 5.30 pm.

Today at this time of grief I ask all the people to hold hands and stand high. In such times of peril have i seen gread deeds of honour and courage. I have seen selfless people risk their lives to save others. I have see people making food in their homes and giving it to the people stuck in traffic so that they wouldnt starve cause no shop has any supplies left. (Well today the shops will have stocks again, dont worry ;))