The Floods
Series: Rediscovering my childhood essays — Part IV
Year 2: Part II
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It was the year 2018. I was in 4th standard then. I was in the highest grade in the Primary section. I don’t remember much that took place five years ago but there is something that I have been made to remember over and over again due to the incident’s lasting impacts. But the thing which showed me what it was and how it was, was a film which got released this year. The film was ‘2018’, the disaster film which was the greatest success in our film industry.
Five years ago, everything was going fine but there was a sudden increase in the annual rainfall. The walls and other buildings blocked the passage of the water creating water accumulation. First people did not bother about it much and was enjoying. But soon, they understood the seriousness of it. There was a flood, which caused buildings to fall and displaced thousands. As I lived in a place not affected drastically, I was not that much affected while other people were crying over their dead relatives and properties destroyed by landslides and mudslides. It was the greatest flood Kerala saw since the flood of 99, which took place in 1924.
Such floods were not common in our state until recently and we are the reason for it as we contribute to the rising greenhouse has emission, which is causing Global Warming and changing the climates all around the world. Glaciers are melting, water level is increasing and the world is getting warmer day by day in such an alarming rate that it is predicted that all the glaciers would melt in the near future. I end this composition by saying that unless we take any steps, we won’t be going anywhere.
