It was just 6pm (yesterday) and I was on my way to home after work. I receive this call from one of my friends telling that Disaster Management Center has issued a Tsunami warning after earthquake in Sumatra. I was shocked. Next minute I was calling to my father, sisiters, mother in law, father in law, friends etc etc who are living in Matara (my home town) but I didn't able to reach any one due to heavy traffic in phone lines. I wanted to inform all the people there since we badly hit by boxing day Tsunami in 2004 and I lost my loving mother too. I didn't want to see something smiler again. It was a really really bad experience. Damn it, all the bloody phone lines were not working and I couldn't send a SMS even. All the TV channel were talking about the earthquake and they were telling that people are removed from the coastal belt. It was the only relief I had. Danger was there till 8.30.pm and It was really hard time for both myself and my wife.
Thanks to nature, it didn't make a Tidal Wave and thing were calm and quite after all. But the time I spent till 8.30.pm was a really hard time. I was really worried about loved once, specially my father who is living in Matara. Five of my family members face to 2004 Tsunami & four of them manage to escape from it after fighting with death. But I lost my mother. It change my life in big way. I saw how people suffer from it. I saw the way people dying and how they fight to save their life. One small kid die on my hands. I can keep on writing about things like these. But I don't want to think about it. It was that hard and Its still really hard to think about those.
Any way things were not that bad this time. I hope & wish not to repeat it for ever. I don't want to see another Tsunami.
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