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| storm in delhi |
By Chance I was out in the market when this happened around 5 pm. In the matter of few minutes darkness was scattered all around and I marched towards the auto stand to rush towards home as the weather was not looking merciful anyhow. The moment I occupied a seat in the auto rickshaw sky was howling with the dust particles, huge bunch of them, dancing all around ith the fierce wind. Yes, it was a dust storm. My auto rickshaw companions could not even open their eyes to look around when I thankfully was sitting in the opposite corner of the motion of the vehicle and the dust wind was not hitting me coincidentally.
It was like a giant figure dancing in front of u, stopping us to go ahead. As the vehicle moved further it started raining. With no particular direction of the wind the rain stream was falling here and there and sometimes even going horizontally hopping into the auto rickshaw accompanying the whole lot of dust. Trees along roadside were moving so briskly as if they just went insane on the sudden arrival of an unwanted havoc-player.
Moving forward, we could hear the ringing bell kind of sound overhead on the roof of the auto rickshaw continuously. They were those ice-pieces (which delhites would call "olay") falling from the sky. I thought its just too much, I mean, how can we get everything in one go - the dust storm, heavy rain and now falling snow pieces (I avoid calling it as a snowfall because they are just small pieces of ice).
My thoughts were engulfing me strongly. How happy we would be if it was just a heavy rain. but no, it was weird combo of everything.
Just then the vehicle took a hault. I thought something went wrong with it but soon I realised that the driver could not actually make out the way ahead in the darkness, scary wind and heavy rainfall. As we were standing on the road with the engine of the rickshaw off, I could feel continuous jerk that was pushing us forward. As the driver says, "even when the engine is off I had to hit on to the brakes to keep the auto rickshaw still".
We were just waiting for the storm to ease off so that wev do not hit others on our way in that hazy weather. Well, it didn't stop but reduced to some extent and we moved ahead.
The other half of the journey was filled with the consequences of the rain-storm. On the straight road almost 10 tress were tore-fallen on the road blocking it creating massive traffic jam. One of the trees had flattened a brand new car falling forcefully on it. Electric wires were broken down here and there and then I knew there's no hope of power at home too. People were gossiping about it, on eof them said, "We could not stand on our own, the wind was taking us away with it". The other one came up with, "not only people, everything was flying all around. IKt was terrifying".
The next day newspaper was full of the deatiled scary outline of the 1 and a half hours of the havoc. 14 died and we could do just nothing.
For me, it was devilish yes, but an "experience to look back upon!
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