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Post by Somak Meitei on Aug 5, 2015 9:59:18 GMT 5.5
Between the lower limit and the upper limit of the kakching residents' memory, many a disaster, which was caused by nature and artificiality, might strike kakching, but neverthless the recent flood will be the most dangerous and powerful one, so it has rendered hundreds of people homeless and forced them to spend some days in the relief camps with gloomy look on their faces expecting a soon normal life. That most humans work behind their selfish motive manifests in the flood. This way which is typical of humans becomes the causal relationship between human selfishness and nature's rage--when the flood struck Kakching, the kakching people made effort to manage it putting aside the neighbouring villages' condition, and at the same time, in the same way, every Leikai in kakching began to manage it, and in the next moment, every family vanished into the mind that seeks only for their very own safety.All I am mentioning here closely relates to humans inclination for nature that they are always against nature while they always want nature to be always with them.
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Aug 5, 2015 15:48:21 GMT 5.5
Over a thousand miles away from home, I was unfortunately unable to be with my family and townspeople suffering the miseries together with them when the flood hit the town. The patchy information I gleaned was from my telephonic conversations with my family and a couple of friends and the few photos I found people sharing on the Internet. Thus I must have missed other things than those I have learnt that a resident in the town would have witnessed.
Even in the best of conditions natural calamities can hit us. However, when we have divested the hills of its green cover, what would not have been a natural calamity can become one. The recent weeks-long rains would not have been potent enough to unleash a hell in the valley and low-lying areas of the state if it were during the 1980s or even the 1990s when the hills were still far greener. Now, without vegetation on them, the hills cannot retain rain water and as a result rain water washes down the red faces of the hills and run muddily down to the law-lying areas even as it rains silting all the water channels on the way, causing damage whose effects will be felt long into the future.
The volume of water the naked hills could not retain this time was so huge that the waters ran over the rivers and they leveled most of the low-lying areas. When the rains ceased and the flood dried up, what was discovered was inches-thick layer of sand mud deposited nearly in every house and smothering agricultural fields, not to mention what the flood has done to the beds of the water bodies. This calamity has very much to do with unchecked deforestation in the hills, and thus we humans have a hand in this victimization of the self while it takes a natural look.
I don't know anything about what the people of Kakching did to the villages around during the flood which they should not have done and what they did not do which they should have done. Kakching being at least the business hub of the towns and villages around, it is upon the people of this town to behave at least generously toward the people in the surrounding towns and villages.
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