Friday, July 18, 2008

A human induced natural calamity

Humans are the reason for most of the natural calamities.....I have heard this a lot.How the humans disrupt the natural harmony through destructive socialization etc etc and thereby induce and bestow upon them these natural calamities .I believed those ..in a can be possible sort of way ,but it was not until I was the victim of a natural calamity which was absolutely 100 % human induced that I became a firm believer of this theory .
It was an ordinary day ,time somewhere around 7 in the morning when the door bell rang.I ignored the first few rings (as usual) hoping that the milkman ,the maid,the grocery man would go away ,my roommate would open the door etc...The ringing continued , I listened hard ..not a sound from my roommate .So I decided unwillingly to surrender to the persistent ring , the minute my feet touched the floor I was wide awake, standing ankle deep in water .Flood ..I panicked...heart skipped a beat ..I am dying ..should I grab my new jeans ? I could see frantic cockroaches running for their dear life ,I woke up my roommate and ran out of my room ,almost slipping and falling ,the water level steadily increasing, I reached the front door and hauled it open in an attempt to flee...... neighbours were outside the apartment ..water was steadily flowing onto the street , O 'yeah onto the street from our apartment ...O my God , forgot to close the outlet of our water tank .
After effect :
Late for work
A lot of work to clean all up the mess(all our rooms + kitchen was completely flooded)
Fine of 600/- for wasting water
And a lot of speculation about who let the taps open ..which remains a mystery till to date
and to top it all ,we the people repeated the flood another 3 times ..making it nothing short of biannual flooding festival.
Now I see that you agree with me on the Human induced natural calamity thing ;)

1 comment:

N said...

Ha ha.. this was a master piece.. never had anythin so weird happening in my life before..U remember the day Tsunami struck.. we were busy mopping every where...
atleast u were only ankle deep in water. Sony and Sandy were sleeping in water..and they dint realise tat!!:) And i remember after the flooding.. our house used to shine after all the mopping:)