velu Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Took it from few of my timeline. Few of my less educated relatives are pawnbrokers in kerala and they were in kerala for decades and they say this is the heaviest rains they have ever witness in their lives. beetle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pratik77 Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 This reminds me of Mumbai 05 floods... Jimmy Cliff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Things are really bad . Death toll is high. Stay safe icf keralites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikred Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Four months back I went on holiday trip with my family to Kerala. The thought of getting caught in that situation with my wife and daughter is pretty scary.Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Road to Munnar.. OMG, scary. velu, Laaloo and beetle 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gattaca Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 sad to see this but if we ignore environment these things will be the norm. Happened to Chennai, Mumbai and now Kerala. Stradlater 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laaloo Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarke Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 1 hour ago, gattaca said: sad to see this but if we ignore environment these things will be the norm. Happened to Chennai, Mumbai and now Kerala. Flooding happens anyways with once in a century rainfall as seems to be the case here. The problem in my opinion might be lack of adherence to building codes & safety regulations, for e.g. proximity of construction to water bodies. In case of the Kashmir floods in 2014, the highly affected areas close to the water bodies were prohibited in the British Raj more than a century back. That tells us how lax we are in terms of planning & execution. velu and beetle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Most of the times floods are natural. Problem is that people have built in path of the river. It is compounded by the fact thst rivers also change course . What happened at Kedarnath was completely man 's fault. If you construct houses in the path of the river , then where will the river go..it will take away everything in it's path. We have blocked natural drains. We have not made proper new drains. What can the poor rivers do. velu, Gollum, Straight Drive and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velu Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Clarke said: Flooding happens anyways with once in a century rainfall as seems to be the case here. The problem in my opinion might be lack of adherence to building codes & safety regulations, for e.g. proximity of construction to water bodies. In case of the Kashmir floods in 2014, the highly affected areas close to the water bodies were prohibited in the British Raj more than a century back. That tells us how lax we are in terms of planning & execution. some of the apartment blocks in bangalore are built on the occupied lakes and water bodies .. sold as lakeview or lakefront apartments/villas samething happened in chennai as well .. last time one of the worst affected areas in chennai flood is velacheri , it literally means "velu's lake" @Detonator @Vilander Edited August 16, 2018 by velu Clarke, Jimmy Cliff, Gollum and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gattaca Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 3 hours ago, Clarke said: Flooding happens anyways with once in a century rainfall as seems to be the case here. The problem in my opinion might be lack of adherence to building codes & safety regulations, for e.g. proximity of construction to water bodies. In case of the Kashmir floods in 2014, the highly affected areas close to the water bodies were prohibited in the British Raj more than a century back. That tells us how lax we are in terms of planning & execution. Applies in cities but rural is different though. It’s environment kids of forests and trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradlater Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 That's what happens when an unplanned, haphazard urbanisation takes it's toll on the mother earth. Wetlands as a natural resource are extremely effective in averting such disasters but as @velu mentioned their encroachment in last few decades have led to disappearances of a vast no of them esp from the areas where rapid urbanization has occurred in the recent times leading to complete change in the landscape hence the regular occurrence of these disasters. You * with nature , it *s with you. Simple. Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 With urbanization, more land is inhabited without proper planning. I am told, Kerala landowners plant more of rubber trees which don't absorb more water than teak/other trees, hence a lot of rain water is wasted. Rubber is more lucrative than other trees. In South Canara the vegetation is less of rubber and more of coffee and other plantations that are eco-friendly. In Kochi, they started acquring land/sites from dried up back waters and now they are all flooded. It's an urbanization problem. It can happen in any major city like Chennai (2015) or Mumbai (2014) or even in Bengaluru next when it gets 100+cm of rain in one day. Straight Drive and Gollum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradlater Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 39 minutes ago, coffee_rules said: With urbanization, more land is inhabited without proper planning. I am told, Kerala landowners plant more of rubber trees which don't absorb more water than teak/other trees, hence a lot of rain water is wasted. Rubber is more lucrative than other trees. In South Canara the vegetation is less of rubber and more of coffee and other plantations that are eco-friendly. In Kochi, they started acquring land/sites from dried up back waters and now they are all flooded. It's an urbanization problem. It can happen in any major city like Chennai (2015) or Mumbai (2014) or even in Bengaluru next when it gets 100+cm of rain in one day. It has a Climate change element as well. But yeah lack of proper urbanisation remains the major factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterix Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 God’s own country under terrible siege. Stay safe folks who are in Kerala.Effects of climate change evident everywhere.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkt.india Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 10 hours ago, velu said: some of the apartment blocks in bangalore are built on the occupied lakes and water bodies .. sold as lakeview or lakefront apartments/villas samething happened in chennai as well .. last time one of the worst affected areas in chennai flood is velacheri , it literally means "velu's lake" @Detonator @Vilander lake is a different thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkt.india Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 43 minutes ago, asterix said: God’s own country under terrible siege. Stay safe folks who are in Kerala. Effects of climate change evident everywhere.. it has nothing to do climate change. Change is the only truth and every season, every year has never been the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradlater Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Yeah change is the only truth even though the supposed change has seen a growth of multifold after industrial revolution thus accelerating the natural rate of extinction by 100 times than normal. But no let's put our heads in the sand and pretend everything is rosy because hey change is an eternal phenomenon taught by my madhyamik vidyalaya masterji in childhood. Let's botch up the natural cycles and resources because change. Laugh at sustainable development concept because change. Refuse to accept scientific consensus on climate change because change. Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradlater Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Climate change deniers are a bigger threat to humanity than Islamic terrorists. Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 Stay safe ICFers based in Kerala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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