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These are times erstwhile a tractor parked astatine an inundation-prone spot sets disconnected a predictable question successful the mind. Which territory is the quality astatine the instrumentality from? At Anna Street successful Thiruvanmiyur, connected October 3, 2025, that question being asked, the quality connected the tractor, P. Periannaswami answered it, “Villupuram”, a earthy affability, untouched by municipality coldness, shining done a grin half-toothy and half-toothless.
Stepping backmost and taking it the larger picture, radical acquainted with operating tractors (usually farmhands) person been called to Chennai for rainfall duty.
Located not excessively acold from the gates of Kalakshetra Foundation’s Craft, Education & Research Centre, this spot gets rapidly saturated with rainwater and fills up a conception of the road, overmuch similar a first-time drinker’s debased tolerance for post-alcohol emesis resulting successful the full bath level being splattered with the erstwhile day’s meal and lunch, and perchance scraps of an ill-digested meal too. When the rainfall is adjacent moderately intense, the roadworthy retains water, the 3 recharge good sunk conscionable for specified situations throwing successful the towel, bedewed and soggy and excessively saturated to sorb immoderate much water.
On the evening of October 3, the roadworthy astir the spot was moist from caller “washing”. This was not what the skies had thrown up, but the earth. The odor of sewage was hanging heavy and unrelentingly successful the air. In summation to rainwater inundation, this conception of Anna Street is notorious for a leaky sewage manhole, the grounds of a systemic unwellness — a recurring artifact successful the sewage line. During rains, this occupation is definite to cheque in.
The overnight showers being gentle, Periannaswami did not person to get down to enactment with his tractor and the suction tube connected October 3. It is lone a substance of clip earlier helium knuckles down to it, and erstwhile helium does, the suction tube would apt quaff not conscionable rainwater, but besides sewage from that manhole.
It surely would assistance to person a imperishable solution for some forms of liquid accumulation, peculiarly due to the fact that Anna Street is simply a large nexus road, much wide utilized by motorists than its width would justify.
