#SUPER_CYCLONE_AMPHAN, We got hit on 20-MAY-2020/12020HE, we were in the effected area:
20-MAY-2020/12020HE - We got hit by AMPHAN, Electricity was gone as usual and was shut down by WBSEDCL. storm continued all night through next morning.
21-MAY-2020/12020HE - Our PARA( neighborhood ) was lucky, we didn't get extensively hit unlike other areas around us. Although many houses got severely damaged and needed immediate repairing in our para. Our house also got some damage but they're not extensive.
All telecommunication network got destabilized, people were able to call each other but most of the time they would not hear any sound on other side, most calls would drop mid session.
Many trees fell due to the storm, Electric poles were destroyed, 2nd day with no electricity.
22-MAY-2020/12020HE - Telecommunication service provider Airtel's network went down completely, Devices show: NO NETWORK. However Vodafone, Cellone And Jio's network was still available but highly unstable and beyond of any use. 3rd day without electricity. Local market reopened. My cellphone's battery dies at night. Other than some broken tree branches and few trees which were cleared by people in my PARA , not much trees fell and didn't damage much of our electricity and communication infrastructures.
23-MAY-2020/12020HE - 4th day without electricity.
24-MAY-2020/12020HE - 5th day without electricity, many people tried to recharge their phones and do other stuff by renting generators from local event organizing agencies. Staffs of power provider WBSEDCL restored the power of nearby area, people of our PARA made a representative team and went there to put pressure on them to come to our area to restore power next. The staffs already came before that day quietly to assess the damage and takes away a broken hightention line which was left on the road for all these days after getting damaged by storm.
25-MAY-2020/12020HE - By the efforts of the people of our PARA, Electricity came back, workers from electricity providers didn't have to do much of repairwork in here. TIME-KAL's ( time to time tap water services by local authorities) water ran all night long.
26-MAY-2020/12020HE - next PARA of our's got hit pretty badly , many tress fell in there.. electric poles were destroyed, workers of WBSEDCL started repairing and recovery work in there, we lost our electricity again, it came back again around 21:00Hrs. Airtel's network came back online but 4G services were inaccessible, 2g basic services were mostly unstabilized.
27-MAY-2020/12020HE - Electric services were mostly stabilized in our area. Airtel's 4G services are now accessible but network is highly unstable for 4G.
28-MAY-2020/12020HE - Workers from local cable service operator started repairing to resume services. Airtel's 4G network atleast came back to it's mediocre working state but keeps fluctuating between 2G and 4G while on complete 4G mode.
29-MAY-2020/12020HE - After 00:00Hrs at morning cable network services were restored.