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Day 732: 5 Minute Freewrite: Prompt: gut feeling
<p class="entry-title"><a href="https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-732-5-minute-freewrite-tuesday-prompt-gut-feeling">Day 732: 5 Minute Freewrite: Tuesday - Prompt: gut feeling</a>

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The air was still. There was a  feeling that we were blanketed by a wet and invisible something which we could not explain. The sun had not risen but the darkness was melting. 

<a href="http://www.thealliance.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/flood-236.jpg"><center><img class="size-medium wp-image-1398 aligncenter" src="http://www.thealliance.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/flood-236-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></center><br/></a>

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The gut feeling that we were near a water body; a massive water body made us shiver. Torchlight did not help and we waited. The birds which usually chirped during the morning hours were absent. Dead silence. It was eerie that the silence made its presence known. Then came a shout which broke the silence. Followed by shrieking and cries for help. Both my husband and I thought we would lose it and ran towards the back yard and stopped all of a sudden. The sun had risen and all we saw was water, water which had taken over what had been our banana farm. A huge expanse of water and water alone. A few banana leaves could be seen on the tip of the water. Our house was on the higher ground and so it had escaped. 

It took us a radio broadcast to understand that the dams had overflowed. All 33 of them for such a tiny state - Kerala. 

End of the timer but I will explain. 

The Kerala floods of 2018, August 16. Inaccurate predictions of rainfall, incompetent leaders, irresponsible officers, and man's nature to pollute the rivers and illegal encroachment of rivers and lands and deforestation; all led to the floods which took hundreds of lives that day. 

As for us, we had to shift and lived in a neighbor's house for a few days until the water receded. 

(image - sayee, photo of the actual flood)

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@whatisnew ·
I was hoping that this story was fiction.  I can't imagine going through something like this and I am glad that you were one of the survivors.  It is terrible that so much loss of lives and property could have been prevented and I hope something has been put in place now so that it doesn't happen again.

Resident cat here, wishing you a great day.  Here is today's new prompt:  https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-733-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-damp-conditions

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@sayee ·
thanks dear. it was a terrible time and yet again this year, the state witnessed land slides and all because of deforestation. I really wish man learns from all this. Thank you for the prompt
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@whatisnew ·
What a shame!  They should have learned by now.  One disaster is enough to learn from.  So sad.  : (
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