It so happened that I had to take a bus back home today. The clouds had to open their heart out and drench me. To top it all off, the bus I took was flooded on the inside!!! Yeah, crazily enough, there weren’t any drainage holes anywhere in the bus. I was standing in ankle deep water, inside the bus…
Given that today’s match was a complete washout, the TNCA should have refunded the ticket costs or at least adjust the ticket towards play on another day. However, going by a report in The Hindu, ticket costs will not be refunded “at any cost”.
The ticket rates start from Rs. 200 for squatting to Rs. 8000 for a pavilion seat. There are hundreds of people in Chennai who are willing to pay that kind of money for watching the match. Nobody would give daanam to TNCA for a match that was washed out.
The root cause of all this would be the BCCI. As it is, international matches in Chennai are few and far between. To top it all off, when the BCCI schedules matches in November - December, the monsoon season here, the odds are a thousand to one that the matches is going to be washed out.
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People are advised against eating meat for the next week or so. It seems that carcasses of animals that have died in Thursday’s rains are being used and sold in meat shops.
It always pays to be safe rather than sorry.
Source: Deccan Chronicle, Chennai edition, 30th October 2005
Need I say anything??? The met department says that Chennai has received 27 cm of rainfall in the last 24 hours and that it is likely to last for another 24 hours.
Stuck here at home, I’m feeling guilty that I’m not able to go to work and complete my tasks. But then again, when practically everybody is in the same situation, I guess there’s nothing more that I can do…