Once again we are marooned inside our home with water surrounding our independent home in Sastri Nagar, Adyar due to the unexpected down pour yesterday. Water also has entered our main drawing room. Fortunately we had removed the sofa sets to the study room which is at a higher level. If it continues to rain for a couple of more days the possibility of water flooding the entire ground floor are bright, as it happened during 2015. It is indeed a frightening prospect.
The problem this time is that any no of times we try to pump out the water from the compound, it gets flooded again. This is because the water inside the ground keeps coming out like a spring. It is from the holes in the pipes we had laid around the house as a part of the Rain Water Harvesting plan we had implemented. Even inside the house water is oozing out of the walls. This phenomenon is happening across Chennai because the water table has reached the ground level with the result there is no place for the rain water to go down. We are able to bend and touch the water in the open well we have behind our home. We used to have this problem once in 4 to 5 years during the last 40 years that we have been staying in this house. This time it has happened twice within a month. The prospects of this happening many times every year because of climate change in the future is depressing. It is time we do something to solve this recurring problem. Is going for redevelopment and convert the independent home to flats built on stilts a solution? Whatever it is I have to be mentally prepared for the disruption that it is going to cause in my well settled life post retirement. I am sure my favorite gods will provide an amicable solution!
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