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Experience of kerala flood
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NEWS STATES KERALA
KERALA
Kerala floods: The best of times, the worst of times

Team MetroPlus
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 22 AUGUST 2018 17:05 IST
UPDATED: 23 AUGUST 2018 14:56 IST


If the most devastating flood of the century almost brought Kerala to its knees, it also brought in an army of Good Samaritans who came from all over the State to help people get back on their feet



The waters rose and Kerala fought back. Even when their own homes were water-logged, volunteers travelled to Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kochi and Thrissur, to save the lives of people marooned in homes and institutions. They ran rescue missions, set up relief centres and started working the phone lines or organise help.

Fishermen from across the State rushed in with boats for rescue operations. Truckers drove through blinding rain and flooded roads to reach essential materials to relief camps. Bus drivers put their lives at risk to keep transport lines open. Government machinery worked almost round the clock in the city.

Sleep and rest became alien to an army of young volunteers. The shopping frenzy for Onam was replaced with shoppers buying for collection centres working for camps all over Kerala. Shelves were emptied of water bottles, biscuits, towels, sanitary napkins, diapers — the essentials of daily life people take so much for granted on a regular day.

Collection centres sprung up at various places and relief camps multiplied all across Thiruvananthapuram, one of the places that was spared the worst of the floods that ravaged the State.

A large network of people went online from all over the world to keep updating the list of requirements at the camps and take calls for rescue coming in from different parts of Kerala and the globe. Now, as the camps empty and those evacuated leave for their homes in different districts, volunteers are moving on to the next stage: helping people clean their homes and begin anew.

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