Last night, someone pointed out to me, that my blog does not have any “happy” entries. I decided then, that I would post one today.
But as it turns out, the events of today are such that this post too wont be happy. Rather, its gonna be about a very scary thing that happened today.
I had gone to salt lake, to a friend’s place. I had used public transport, and that is not a cause of worry. Several times earlier, I have used public transport to travel to that part of the city.
Like today, I had to go to the same friend’s place on Monday. That day too, I had used public transport. It is usually 5 or
Today too, the plan was same. I reached at approximately the same time, and was supposed to leave by 5 and my friend was dropping me to the metro station.
Unfortunately, things never go according to my plans!!!
By the time I thought I had to leave, the sky had turned dark. Normally, the monsoons are supposed to arrive by now. But the met dept says they are delayed. My bad luck that they decided to arrive today! It had started raining a little and that’s when I realised I was gonna be in big trouble. I decided to wait till the rains slowed down a bit. A scooty ride would be very difficult if we were handling raincoats or umbrellas. And, of course, we did not want to get wet. So we decided to wait. This decision too, was incorrect. The storm got worser and worser. The rains were coming down hard and fast, the winds were now transformed into a strong gale. The windows were rattling and the trees looked like they would snap into two. I was so shit scared! I didn’t know what to do! I had to reach home as soon as possible, and I had no means to reach except by public transport. I didn’t want to take a cab in salt lake. It was either a metro or a whiteliner. And in either case I had to go and catch them from somewhere, it was not available at my doorstep!
One distressed call to a school friend, and bang, everything fell into place. There was a car waiting for me, it dropped me where I wanted to go.
But then came the scary part. I had to walk a little distance to reach the car, coz the driver didn’t know the exact building. As I ran out of the building towards the car, handling a big bag and an umbrella, there was a big flashing bolt of lightning. I got blinded for a moment, closed my eyes for just a second. Suddenly, I heard this big resounding crash. Something like a big roar! It seemed so close-by. I opened my eyes, just in time to see this big tree tilt precariously. And then, just after a mini-second, it gave way, and came crashing to the ground. It sent splinters and branches flying in all directions. One of the branches came and hit the car that was waiting for me. I was so damn scared! My friend gave me a nudge forward, I ran to the car, and clambered in! It felt so nice to be back, safe!
I dunno, from now on, I will be really scared of thunderstorms! I loved walking in them, getting wet in the rain, but next time all that I will be reminded of will be that I just narrowly missed that tree!!!
