It looked like a normal rainy
day, just like Mumbai. Few rains and the water start logging. But this was
different. In one of the hotels of Jammu & Kashmir, a Mumbai based family
went attending a marriage function. Everything was normal when flood started
entering the hotel premises, the senior person of family Mr Vijay Thakur, a
Chembur resident, started taking pictures of floods with fun. In no time, they
were surrounded by floods that made them move to the upper floors of the hotel.
Thakur family realized that they were in big trouble…
This blog is dedicated to the
brave Thakur family who survived in J & K floods based on article published
in Mumbai Mirror followed by an interview taken by RJ Jituraj of Radio Mirchi
Mumbai. Mr Vijay Thakur is one of my managers in my office and he shared the
audio clip of that interview. But it brings tears in eyes when we listen. The
way how we become miserable against the nature when it thinks to take revenge,
when it is not in a good mood with the innocent people or when it wants to
teach lesson to people how the way global warming is taking place around. On 8th
September 2014, Mumbai Mirror published about the family was stuck in J & K
and needed help. The Thakur family safely returned couple of days ago in
Mumbai. Today Mr Thakur was on air with Juturaj on radio Mirchi, Mumbai,
described the story of surviving from floods.
No sooner did Thakur family found
themselves trapped, they started seeking for help. Very soon, mobile networks
& telephones services were disconnected. The hotel staff confirmed that
they were trapped and the only hope of surviving was the army which was helping
all other people. But they were still waiting for the help. The hotel staff
assured them whenever the help would arrive, the guests of their hotel would be
allowed to go first before the staff. They were merely survived on couple of
parathas which were being served as a food in hotel. When Thakur family saw an
army boat, they started making loud noise in order to make them noticed about
help. The army personals took them in a boat to a bus which took them to the
place where choppers were taking rescued people to their camps. But the journey
was going to be tougher. When they reached there, they found huge queue of people.
There was no food, and no toilets. Somehow women and little children were allowed
to stay in Governer’s outhouse while men from family stood in a queue for their
turn. Thakur family got the chance to board on chopper after 1 and half day
after waiting. By chopper, they were taken to the army base where Indian Air
Force planes took people to their destinations.
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| Mr Thakur in Jammu & Kashmir. A heaven turned into a hell. |
Thakur family was one of the
luckiest family who survived before the nature. I think that this family will
never forget this week long ordeal through which they suffered and how our army
helped them returning back to their sweet home. Thakur family is an example
that in the cruel race of nature, humanity has won. Think about the generosity
of the hotel staff that helped them to board first before themselves, think
about the army personals that selflessly served them, and think about the
blessing of god too. There must be something that they were taken care of.
Returning from J & K, they immediately saw doctor whether they were
suffering from pneumonia or not. But everything was normal. This tragedy has
taken many lives, many people have lost their homes, J & K is too destroyed
but this disaster will certainly have left a wound on Thakur family which they
would never ever forget…
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