"Pick a Word, Paint a Story #05"

Hello my steemian friends,

This is my participation in the contest” “PICK A WORD, PAINT A STORY #05" By @senehasa in Hindwhale Community

RAIN

In our country, after the scorching heat of June and the body getting scorched by the heat, the first shower of monsoon and its light fragrance rising from the ground always had a romantic effect on my body and mind. I always used to wait for the arrival of monsoon. As soon as the first shower of rain fell, my body and mind used to dance.

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In the jungle, peacocks also start dancing spreading their wings, animals and birds start chirping happily. I also always climb the roof of my house in this first rain and take off all my clothes and play with the rain water wearing only underwear and vest.

I have seen that on the roofs of other houses like me, people are also enjoying the drizzle of the first rain, either alone or in pairs with their friends. And after enjoying for some time in the same way, the taste of pakoras made by mixing potatoes, onion, cabbage, brinjal, paneer in gram flour and sips of hot tea add to the beauty of this rainy season.

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But today I am telling such a story of rain, which the organizer of this competition can understand very well, because she too is a resident of a coastal area.

A few years ago, I came to Mumbai for work of my pharmaceutical company before the rainy season started. It is said that even the weather department cannot predict rain in Mumbai. That day, after finishing my work, I went alone to Mumbai's Chopati [Mumbai's famous coastal area] to roam in the pleasant atmosphere. The distance of Chopati from my hotel room was 20-22 kilometers, I came here by taxi.

After reaching here, I was happily roaming on the seashore, and enjoying the surrounding view, when suddenly dark clouds covered the sky, darkness prevailed in the sky, strong winds started blowing, sea waves started rising, the tourists who had reached there started going back home. Seeing the horror of the weather, I too got scared and I decided to go back to my hotel room.

And when I was leaving from there, it started raining very heavily, it seemed as if the clouds would pour out all their anger, in a short while the roads started filling up with water, traffic stopped, people started taking shelter wherever they found a place, I also took shelter in a tin shelter outside a three-storey building, there were already some other people like me standing there.

In a short while the rain took a terrible form and the roads were filled with water up to 3-4 feet, we all drowned in water up to our waist. Children and women started crying. Then the owner of the building showed mercy on seeing us drowned in water and asked us to come to the first floor of the building, the rain continued in its terrible form for about 12-13 hours and the ground floor of almost all the buildings on the roadside was submerged in water, all the vehicles parked on the roadside were drowned in water.

Due to so much rain, the electricity supply was also temporarily cut off. All of us refugees were sitting in some corner of that building, hungry and thirsty, in dark silence. We were thankful that our lives were saved. The water started receding from the roads only after 10-12 hours of the rain stopping. We all were stuck there for about 25-26 hours.

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There was no sound of any vehicle anywhere. Perhaps all the vehicles had broken down due to being submerged in water. The next day at 2 pm when the roads became walkable, I decided to go back from there on foot. After walking about 4-5 kilometers, by the grace of God, I found a three-wheeler and reached my hotel room by sitting in it. After sleeping in my room for a few hours, I decided to go back to my city.

And the memory of this terrible incident and the night spent due to rain never leaves my mind.

I also want to invite here
@mehwish-almas @tammanna @suryati1 and @zisha-hafiz

HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE.

Thanks for reading my post, I pray to God for the progress and happy future of all Steemians.

Sur-riti❤️