The True Sad Story Of A Courageous Woman

It happened in the August month of 1999 in an average coastal town of Orissa,India..It was a town with around ten thousand population…It was raining cats and dogs there for almost a week..
Life to say the least,was paralyzed.
The communication link with the outside world was cut off long ago…
And On that eventful day..
It was around 5 AM in the morning..
Almost all the people of the town woke up shocked as they found pools of water flowing around them with a terrifying noise..

Before they could realize what was happening, the levels of water started rising drastically and there was no escape route for them as the heavily gushing water was hampering their movements…
Still they managed to run out of their houses but pathetically found themselves stranded in more and more of flood water..
The water at that time was up to the waist level and was gradually rising..The shocked many tried to reach that handful of high rise buildings in the town only to find them overflowing with people.
While the lucky ones could barge in…those unlucky were shunted out…
And it was still very heavily raining at that time..


With the passing of time..Rains didn’t stop..The rising of water levels didn’t stop..And the plight of the people didn’t stop..All the streets were full with people and full with water..Some people were trying their best to come out of the water but the level was constantly rising and was making life miserable for them.There is no escape route visible anywhere nearby except a frightening flood water.
By then almost all of them have very silently realized that they are slowly heading towards a country from whose Bourne no traveler has ever returned..
But there were still some people shouting for help ..A few some were weeping out of fear..While some were down low spirited…A few some were going hysterical…Children and the old aged were the worst affected as one by one of them started dying a silent death…
A helpless death..An unnoticed silent death…
All the remaining of them there wanted to live…
                                Just live. Do something. But live.