Post Cyclone Gonu

Post cyclone Gonu , or maybe I should give you an outline on this.June 6th , 2007 came a cyclone of class 5 (predicted to be of class one-the worst , but the force pulled down as it neared the Arabian coast).The area I stayed in was near the coastal plains.It did affect my area drastically but not cos of the cyclone but cos of a dam which was left open to avoid damages to the near by areas.

The post cyclone effects were visible the very next day itself.To witness people bathing in dirt water that too in a foreign country is definately a sight. Infact my area , Ghubra, had actually become a temporary tourist destination!To have people clicking photographs of the broken road opposite my house, and the path where we used to go for our evening walks was something that will always remain etched in my mind.People were adapting to days without food, water, electricity and for some even without a shelter.I remember that when I and my dad had gone to Lulu to get few stuff for home people were literally getting physical for a bottle of water.One case got that worse that they had to pull in cops to deal with it and eventually started '2 bottles per person' rule.

Life came back to normal , atleast for me , as for me college had begun.Getting used to an autonomous life I had already forgotten about the past.And last week when I landed in Oman for my X'mas leave , there were major changes.Almost 90% of the damages are mended or replaced.Then we had people discussing that if such a thing had taken place in India we would not be able to see it repaired atleast in 20 years. I don't know about India , but the Ministry of Oman has done an incredible job! With monarchy ruling the nation, the orders given by the Sultan are always obeyed.Maybe if Oman had a democratic Government the cyclone damages would have probably not been cleared so fast as you know a proposal has to be passed and the members need to approve of it and etc. Well like I have always said all's well that end's well.

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Cyclone Gonu

Hey! Being brought up in Oman... I love this place ...and as I got alert messages on June 5th about a cyclone Gonu that was going to hit... I was like.. 'ya right! cyclone my foot!' No one cared... No one was bothered. Cyclones are not supposed to be hitting Oman... where rains are 'once in a blue moon' thing! they should be attacking..cyclone-prone places..like Gujarat..Indonesia...etc. But no.... this time... it was the desert itself.. but no one wanted to believe it. And my cell jus kept beeping very one hour with messages regarding the cyclone
The ROP were asking people to stay away from windows and asked us not to step out of our houses. I was working on the computer two hours before the cyclone hit....the computer was situated right next to the window.

As the ROP had alerted...the cyclone hit at 5:15... it was like a river flowing in front of my house! I was having fun shooting it through my cell..thinking i will upload it onto the computer once the flow stops.. Little did i know that the storm was too fond of my area and that i won't be able to access the computer for atleast the next 10days.

The flow kept increasing..that the water level reached the dashboard of my car. Then we started lifting all the drawers and important things in the ground floor n ran upstairs. By then we didn't have electricity, or water , nor was the cell working as there was no range. We were stuck.

But with God's grace..the cyclone which was suppose to have come in a Limo landed up coming in a Toyota :-D