Back to life, back to reality
Back to normalcy. 3 days was enough to drive anyone crazy. I've spent the most harrowing 30 hours of my life...just waiting to hear some news of J. I reached home the same day after wading through mid thigh water for almost 2 and a half hours. Most people were not as lucky as I was. A solace was I was safe at home, but J who had started from work at 5 was still a kilometer away from his work place, when I last spoke to him at 8 pm on Tuesday. That was when technology played havoc. No power, no connectivity, totally cut off from anyone who may have wated to call.
A sleepless night and fretting morning passed by. I breathed a sigh of relief when he called a neighbour and spoke to me. He was back at work after spending the night at the Bandra Flyover. When I called later at his work place he had already left the workplace. Maybe I would not have been worried if he was at work place. He got back at 11:45 at night, almost 10 hours after he had left work. Already a wreck by the time, I was most glad to see him back.
Mumbai shook me. I realise what it is to feel "helpless". What touched me was also strangers, virtual strangers helping you out, risking their own lives. A person held my hand and walked me right to the main road where I could manage onmy own. The swirling waters gave no indication of where the roads were and where the drains were.
Its been quite an experience, and certainly an experience I can never forget. Mumbai is now slowly crawling back to normalcy.
A sleepless night and fretting morning passed by. I breathed a sigh of relief when he called a neighbour and spoke to me. He was back at work after spending the night at the Bandra Flyover. When I called later at his work place he had already left the workplace. Maybe I would not have been worried if he was at work place. He got back at 11:45 at night, almost 10 hours after he had left work. Already a wreck by the time, I was most glad to see him back.
Mumbai shook me. I realise what it is to feel "helpless". What touched me was also strangers, virtual strangers helping you out, risking their own lives. A person held my hand and walked me right to the main road where I could manage onmy own. The swirling waters gave no indication of where the roads were and where the drains were.
Its been quite an experience, and certainly an experience I can never forget. Mumbai is now slowly crawling back to normalcy.