December 5 2015 visit : Raja sir, my wife Krupa and
myself we visited Porur madanandapuram as there was no communication from this
place yet. We found that water logging was there at many places, but all the
residents are fine and also that they have access to shops and so. We also
visited max worth colony and found things to be okay.
Post this we headed towards velachery. On the way we
stopped at a relief camp near court Saidapet. We distributed clothes, biscuits
and a few more items. It was very very difficult to manage the crowd. We had to
rush from there. We found a truck and car being pounded..volunteers on the
vehicles had no clue what to do. Absolutely difficult to deal here.
Near the Junction, we had Priya and Srivatasan join us
with biscuits, bread and more importantly water packets. We went to baby nagar,
tansi nagar, ram nagar and also perungudi railway station. We distributed
mosquito coils, Milk packets, bread, bun, biscuits and a few more items to all.
One Mr. Ganesh from TCS joined us and helped us to venture through the area. We
saw that many groups are attending to them especially about providing food
thrice a day. Here again maintaining the order was a challenge. We found that
it's easier to deal with flooded areas than camps.
For people who are not being able to connect with
relatives at this place, it's the
network that is the issue. And moving across the water logging is a challenge
so many are at home. I would say all are safe and are being taken care here.
Then we moved towards royapuram, wimco and reached chetti
school. We were welcomed (@*!?l)by local political group. They asked where are
you from and what you want to give. The way they answered itself made us feel
we made a mistake coming here. They were sarcastically telling us that if you
can give for all 600 give else you can't give. We just dropped the clothes and
left this place.
We also found lot of support being provided at a relief
camp in tvk school Anna nagar.
We also used dettol and bleaching powder to sanitize a
few water logged areas.
Overall, the rain
was less severe today and many of the places are recovering. It will take time
to get the complete mess cleared but be assured that people are being attended
to.
We plan to wait and watch the situation on ground. Lot of
big organizations and administration (now that water is drained at most places)
are in to play now. We would like to resume our work on need basis and focus on
them again once the focus shifts from them.
We would like to thank Dream India friends, Patterns,
Vasantham Special School, MREC Tamil alumini, tcs sagas friends, Action2020
team, Tamil Nadu flood support FB page
and many of our friends for the support and helping us along the way.
We believe (if no rains further) city should be back to work by Monday and
areas out of network to be restored in a few days. Hope rain God thinks the
same.
Regards,
Natarajan
