Facing The Worst Flood In Decades
The story
So for a week Sri Lanka has been hit by worst rains that we’ve seen for years. Who would have thought we will be hit by the worst floods we have seen in decades. Deadly landslides, high water levels, people trapped in their homes with no food and water, together with power cuts due to safety it has been a chaos.
As always we are lucky to see at the time of need how Sri Lankans got each others backs, it is just wonderful to see. Not just people who post what they do on social media, people do a lot of work without being noticed working tirelessly for people in need. It’s like the time when the tsunami hit the island back in 2004.
But as always it’s disappointing to see how people who are in control does not prepare for these kinds of events before hand.
Learn
I’m no way an expert on this topic but at least this is pov from a common man.
Like I said before we Sri Lankans tend to forget things a lot, we will forget this in another week, life will go back to normal until the next flood hits the country.
This is a good time at least for the people in charge to build a way so people will not be affected like this from adverse weather like this.
- A better notification system where people can be evacuated when a certain water level is reached.
- Media coverage before the flood happens preparing for an emergency.
- Usage of social media and other popular ways to spread the message rather than being restricted to mainstream media.
- Being prepared and organized and knowing what to do in such a situation.
At least this should be a good time to learn from this flood to be better prepared for the next natural disaster.
It’s not over yet
Actually it’s not over yet, the worst is yet to come. After the flood this is a time where diseases are having an incubation period. But after that the diseases can spread through contaminated water, overcrowded refugee camps, poor sanitary facilities.
So even though the water level drops and the donations are being handed over we will have to ‘bat through’ for another 2–3 weeks with the flood affected areas.
We are lucky to live in a country where we have little number of natural disasters, so why not be prepared for them?
I guess I’m getting more and more lazy everyday. I thought about writing something on the blog everyday but then I get lazy and skip it to the next day and so on. It’s a bad habit, I know that. But it’s something I’ve done since I was little, knowing that it’s bad for me.
