{"id":8867,"date":"2018-12-13T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T06:42:45","slug":"there-was-slush-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/there-was-slush-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There was slush everywhere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOn the midnight of 16th August, my dog started howling briskly; alarmed, I went to see him and heard some unusual commotion outside. Within ten minutes and before I could apprehend the situation, floods broke out, unstoppable water along with mud came smashing everything,\u201d narrated Tiju Samson, a resident of Munnar, Idukki district to CASA reporters.<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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By<\/strong> Md Mahfooz Alam<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/b>Intern | CASA Communications<\/p>\n

Incessant rainfall is nothing new to Kerala, but the month of August this year received consistent heavy rainfall, with dams overflowing beyond its capacities. Left with no option, the authorities opened 35 dams which flooded all 14 districts of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo (above) Tiju Samson explaining the damages caused by the landslides in Idukki district (below)Tiju Samson\u2019s Rotweiller who alerted him on the night of the disaster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tiju Samson on further enquiry, elaborated, \u201cWater was up to our neck, and mud houses were washed off because of landslides. People were evacuated and send to relief camps. I along with my brother and some other young people rescued many but sadly we couldn\u2019t rescue Satish, his wife and their two children. They died trapped in their house, although we did save his mother.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The damage to infrastructure has been mammoth \u2013 local houses, schools, colleges are completely submerged; roads are damaged; railways stuck and airports shut down. V G Suresh, a local resident recounts in pain, \u201cI am <\/span>living in my relative\u2019s house. My house and all the belongings were washed away in the flood and I can\u2019t reconstruct it without government aid. He further adds, \u201cI have two school going daughters. Their study materials are completely destroyed \u2013 I am left with no resource to send them school again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Farmers, fisherman and the daily wage workers are in miserable state. Soman from Kuttanad said, \u201cThe basic necessities of livelihood \u2013 agriculture, livestock and boats are lost; the paddy and banana fields are submerged in water, fisherman are out of job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the Panchayat Presidents said, \u201cThere is no potable water because the supply is cut off and there is severe hygiene and sanitation problem. The water is still stagnant in the houses which may lead to water borne diseases.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe woman in the photograph is a resident of Kottayam district whose house was washed away in the floods. Presently, she is staying at her mother\u2019s house which was also partly damaged in the August deluge. Upon asking<\/em><\/span>
\n why they were continuing living in a vulnerable house, her mother revealed, \u201cWe tried living in the relief shelters but other residents were not comfortable sharing the same roof with my daughter as her mental health condition is not stable. She gets recurrent flashbacks of her house being washed away in the floods, and that makes her emotionally<\/em><\/span>
\n unstable and restless. We had to come back to this house as we have no other place to live.\u201d <\/em><\/span>
\n – The interviewees didn\u2019t wish to be named<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOn the midnight of 16th August, my dog started howling briskly; alarmed, I went to see him and heard some unusual commotion outside. Within ten minutes and before I could apprehend the situation, floods broke out, unstoppable water along with mud came smashing everything,\u201d narrated Tiju Samson, a resident of Munnar, Idukki district to CASA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,105,114,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appeals","category-casa-blog","category-case-stories","category-newsupdates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9093,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/9093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casa-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}