Storm in a tea cup? No not at all
Yet another storm was brewing in Bay of Bengal for the last few days. It kept us on tender hooks. Never seemed to make up its mind about what to do next.My cousins have caused enough havoc on Tamil Nadu coastal areas this season, it seemed to be thinking.So it has weakened into a deep depression and is slowly moving westward.Likely to cross the coast between chennai and Ongole in the wee hours of tonight/tomorrow morning.In the meanwhile there are heavy showers and office quadrangle is quickly filled up with water upto ankle level.
All of us have got quite fatigued by continuing rain spells.The havoc it causes is not in any way reduced by this mental fatigue.I have kept the TV on Sun News channel permannently in my cabin and on mute mode. Have become quite wary of weather and it shows!First time in my life that i am so much tuned in to the weather on a real time basis.
When we get back home, we discuss the weather, just like the Englishman.Yes, it has also become a topic of conversation when two people meet.It is quite different from the conversation openers "It is very very hot and humid this summer".
Right now I am sitting down and reviewing plans for today eve;a concert which i had planned to go for the last one week.And it is not making me happy.And we need to relook at our plan to go to tirupati tomorrow;there was a news of a breach in a tank in tiruttani which i spotted as a tiny trailer news in sun news.Road traffic to tirupati affected it said. There goes our plans.I had planned to climb up the hill this time and i am disappointed.Such a small programme as picking up an elderly relative in the evening needs to be reviewed due to incessant rains.
It might appear very common to people living in other parts of the country and in the wider world where weather is always an unknown element to be factored in while making any plans. But for me in Chennai, it is a new experience.
I can now empathise with the song ' rain rain go away' which i used to think is a sacrilege to recite!
posted by vasukumar @ 2:20 AM
3 Comments:
Yeah. Here I have gotten used to watching the weather channel on regular basis for day to day simple chores. Some time back, I used to decide to go for walks if the temperature is highter than 50 F. The moment I know the it is more than 50 I just got out, but I learnt one more thing that the wind speed also has to be taken into consideration as it is uncomfortable to walk /jog with chill wind blowing.
Now that it is snowing, I watch for the temperature (less than 32 F is freezing temperature) and any snow fall so that Tejas can go to school appropriately dressed with an additional snow pants and a snow boot to boot.
Yeah back home weather watching was not at all a factor for our innumerable plans.
Hope the rains have receded in chennai.
would love to see tejas, suited and booted!Why is F used in the US?Remember the painful conversion tables we were dinned into in school that from a deadline date fareinheit is no longer valid and we have to switch over to centigrade!
Rules apply to everybody else is it?
I think basically Americans do not want to do what ever the British do. So their vehicles are left hand driven, on the right hand side (keep right) of the road.
Till date they don't use metric system and it is Pounds and Miles. We get used to which ever system we are exposed to and I who is so poor in conversion calculation, especially the conversion of fareinheit to centigrade have got used to this system and know what it feels like when it is ranging between 70 F to 10 F
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