During November and December, there are heavy rains in Chennai and whenever we have continuous rains for days together, people fear in Chennai. The main reason is that we don't have a proper water drainage system and many buildings are on top of lakes and encroachments. The city's waterways are not planned very well, and politicians don't care. Only in recent years, has this been a big problem. I don't remember seeing such floods in Chennai before 10 years. Maybe it was there but we never feared flood every year.
In most places, the roads were continuously raised to a higher level, making the houses go down. The situation is more like after 20 years the level of roads will be higher and the houses will be lower. This is another problem that we are dealing with bad administration. This is another big reason why we get water inside our house. Last year during the floods my house was also affected and we had rainwater coming inside the house through the ground. I had to then spend a lot of money to do some preventive measures.
Chennai should learn from the Netherlands
In the Netherlands floods were a problem a few decades back. When I talk to one of my friends in the Netherlands, he used to tease me saying that we should be hiring a few Dutch engineers to fix our waterways. We have so many good waterbodies in Chennai but they are all now sewage where people mix their drainage water into that making them contaminated and unusable.
I wish we had waterways similar to how it is in several other countries including the Netherlands. However big the rains are in the Netherlands, my friend used to tell me that they don't get floods easily. We have to do something like that in Chennai.
Companies moving their primary base away from Chennai
This is a very common thing that can happen in places where red alert is a common problem. There is no point in asking investors to come and open companies in Chennai. We have so many problems that need attention. Before we call investors we have to make sure we have enough facilities available. During November and December, it is hard to predict what can happen and many companies have moved to a better city. Servers are the first things that are moved by the companies. My company also moved the servers that were in Chennai to another City in India to be on the safer side.
Going to native
For some people, Chennai is just a workplace and they stay in apartments where rainwater is heavy. When it comes to the last two months of the year, they go back to their native and come back again when the rains have settled down. Water alone is not the problem we also have power problems and power cuts. Every year people also die because of such bad weather conditions due to various reasons. We cannot do much about all this but if the government thinks it can do something it won't because it is not a big deal for them and they would like to do politics with this subject.
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