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Sunday, December 18, 2005
 We sigh instead of sing
Hey all,
Another rainy day (sigh) . Usually residents of chennai love to see the rain, this has been the story of the past years. But now it is annoying! Now we have abundant amount of water to drink and no more water scarcity, but the thing is we don't want more rain this year. The most affected people are the farmers and businessmen who lost their harvests and goods by the floods caused by the rains...Ah cyclones all the time.. I want to see sunshine soon! I CANT TAKE THIS ANY LONGER!!!!! I cant go outside 24 hrs rain ! And the city is yetch!! Dumpster! Muddles and garbage everywhere ewww...

Many lives have been lost yesterday in chennai...To be exact 42 people were killed and several other severely injured when a stampede of people. It has been reported about 4000 people were assembled to get flood relief materials from the government. Rain and poor lighting facilities in the area added to the chaos. The tragedy occurred around 4 a.m. as people pushed at the gate of the school in the belief that distribution of tokens was about to begin. Although officials had announced that the distribution would begin only at 9 a.m., people started queuing up outside the school from 9 p.m previous night !

As there was a concrete slope at the entrance, those at the head of the queue slipped and fell. People stumbled over one another. The rush did not stop, and the gate was again closed with great difficulty. By then several people had been crushed to death or seriously injured....

Again today another flood relief center....no stampede this time but it was awfully crowded... The only problem is they are not properly organized...I dont know when people learn to be organized so that such disasters can be minimized.

posted by Sandeep at 7:25 PM @ 7:25 PM

  
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