Wave of disaster

Its been a year since the tsunami hit our country. Same time last year I was in Chidambaram a town which is 20km from cuddalore. We started from chennai on 25th December afternoon and went there via pondicherry,cuddalore route. We reached there by night and the next day morning we got up early to attend an auspicious ceremony at the temple. We wanted to start early cos everybody had to get to work the next day. The town was not much of a sophisticated place and we got a news that the sea has inundated the coastal areas and had engulfed people. I thought this is just another rumour spread by these people cos we've never heard of tsunami at all.We dint know anybody there and so we couldn't even check it out on tv. So we thought it would be better if leave as early as possible. We went to cuddalore around 12pm. A lot of people were standing in the cuddalore bus stop and food was being supplied to them. Only then did we realise that something has really happened. Almost all the shops were closed and we felt very hungry. At last we found a hotel and had our lunch at cuddalore. Then we went to pondicherry and found it hard to find a petrol bunk to load our car. We took a audacious step to go via ECR and thankfully the tollgate was open and ours was the only car on the road throughout our journey on that road till we reached chennai. The roads were splashed with water as if it had just rained and we saw many people stranded on the roads with their family leaving behind their home and not knowing where to go and what to do. It was a very sickening sight. We had travelled along most worstly-hit areas. We reached home by 7 and were very shocked to watch the horrifying scenes on the tv. May god show mercy on us!!