Tamil Nadu prepares for Cyclone Mala |
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Dec 19th, 2005, 18:19
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| Tamil Nadu prepares for Cyclone Mala  So that's what she's up to these days    On a more serious note: 50,000 people living near to the sea are being evacuated. Tamil Nadu has had record rains: the most rainfall for 120 years, this monsoon. Chennai is getting used to floods as opposed to its usual draught. When will it stop? |
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Dec 19th, 2005, 20:03
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| Discombobulated Elsewherean!  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Zimbabwe
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| This is pretty scary........when are you expecting her to make landfall??? After the weekend's disaster with all those people being trampled....now this?? The world has sure gone mad.........some man-made and others of "nature's" making. Stay safe. OT - You see what happens when you talk about someone???
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Dec 19th, 2005, 20:13
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| bling it on  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: perth
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 ).i hope you stay safe nick, and all in chennai. | |
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Dec 19th, 2005, 20:37
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| looks scary.. when is it expected to hit?  |
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Dec 19th, 2005, 22:14
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| a pain in the asana  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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| batten down the hatches, Nick -- you and Sushi stay safe! I hope it's not as bad as Hurricane Katrina was here for New Orleans... by the way, "mala" is Spanish for "bad"....
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Dec 19th, 2005, 22:26
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Dec 19th, 2005, 22:34
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| just a traveler  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Earth
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| oh no! Again rain! this is something terrible. Half a month in Tamil Nadu and I just think of it like tiny patches of land. Both sides of east Coast road are inundated. Poor farmers, they harvest is flown away, today in newspapers I read about disastrous stampede in Chennai and 42 people left dead. |
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Dec 19th, 2005, 22:37
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 | that stampede is fresh on the heels of a similar tragedy last month. Poor survivors of floods are desperate
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Dec 19th, 2005, 22:48
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| i was reading about this. tragic for the homeless who were stampeded while simply trying to get some food to eat. as my friends in Bhagsu-Nag said when i was there in March; Mother Nature is very angry! Nick - stay safe and take the necessary precautions.
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Dec 19th, 2005, 22:54
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Dec 19th, 2005, 23:11
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| It is very, very sad, and a combination of the don't-care attitude of Indian institutions (nobody here is going to sue and get big dollars) and the complete lack of safety sense on both a personal and civic level. When I first came here the freedom to get hurt was, somehow, refreshing: if you fall down a hole or walk into a sharp piece of steel, tough. But then something like this happens  Mala was a piece of IndiaMike history that seems to have disapeared,even from the member's list. |
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Dec 19th, 2005, 23:52
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| Bulk Carrier  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Chennai
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| Sue the government through a public interest litigation....for callousness. I hope mala is the last one. I can't stand another cyclone...had to put up with six cyclones already.
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Dec 20th, 2005, 00:05
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Dec 20th, 2005, 06:04
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Dec 21st, 2005, 12:23
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| Hurray! Fortunately cyclone Mala drifted away and Coromandel coast has shining day today. Hurray! |
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