Tsunami - an unforgettable nightmare

After years of a hard hit natural disaster, you should have thought why Iam here with this topic! 26th December, 2004 happened to be a nightmare for many people. The people who slept peacefully with lot of dreams in the night, did not wake up the very next day. Our nearby place became a victim of this worst hit natural disaster, after Indonesia. This was the place where one lost their hone, near and dear ones in fraction of seconds.

By chance we happened to visit this area. Just by chance.....only. Once occupied with a lot of inhabitants, later became a deserted land due to the unexpected natural disaster. Now after 18 years, things are back to normal. Except in some places huge black stones are laid as memories for the the lost near and dear ones.

When Tsunami hit this place, the sea shore and houses were of the same ground level, due to which many houses, animals and peoples were washed away by the natural disaster. To overcome this disaster in future, the government has decided to raise the ground level by putting mud and placing huge stones as a barrier. So the houses are in raised places with the stones as barrier. The present picture of this place is given below, where the shore alongside is built with huge stones.

So finally our drive went on insearch of the new bridge. As both of us had no idea where exactly is this located, we kept moving enjoying the beautiful nature. Along the bridge a light house was also built and inaugurated very recently. As it was Eid, the place was over crowded. Finally we saw the sign board showing the direction towards the bridge. So here we go. Its a newly built bridge connecting various places making the journey easy and comfortable especially for the old and sick. We the people are thankful to our government. A glimpse of the picture is given below. The center picture shows the light house. It was totally crowded.

The police had tough time managing the public. It was a public holiday as well as Eid. So the crowd not to say was restless and kept parking the cars near the bridge and walked away to the shore. The police imposed a heavy fine on such vehicles. This view of the bridge was taken on Eid.

On the day of Eid, my children wanted to do some shopping, we decided to leave them in a mall. As they said it might take hours for them to be back both me and my husband, decided to go for a ride. Recently it was in news a new bridge connecting various states was completed and inaugurated by the Minister of our place.

To have a view of this bridge, we have to go through the shore, once hit by the natural disaster Tsunami, an exact 45 minutes drive, to reach the destination. When we pass through this road we can see to its left the sea shore and to the right are the houses built by government for the people who lost their houses during the disaster.

Adjacent to the sea shore, are spacious grounds where the young and old gather. The youngsters are busy playing football and cricket while the old generation are playing rummy with cards. You can see the little ones playing with small balls or just running and playing in the wet mud. This scenario continues till we reach our destination, nearly for 30 minutes. So pleasant it was to see this wonderful sight.

In between we can find lots of small shops for tea and snacks, an ice cream parlour, a toy shop etc. The passers-by stop at the shop to have tea and snacks. We too had some hot n spicy chilli snacks. Though it was spicy it was nice to eat it in the cold weather.

Though it has been years since I visited the place, it was of great solace to see so many happy peoples around. Its not easy to get back to normal when something worst happens.

Only when one is homeless one gets to know the worth of home and parents.

All images captured in my mobile and edited in Canva, from the once Tsunami hit area.

Thankyou for your time.