[Goanet] Canacona Floods - Video Clips
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible Canacona Floods - Video Clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QmupFCnO4Q Pics were posted earlier joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc Add whatever you love to the Yahoo! India homepage. Try now! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew
[Goanet] Canacona Floods
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible A few days back, the people from some parts of Goa, particularly from Canacona area, had to bear the brunt of fury of the “Rain Gods”. Incessant rains for 5 consecutive days wrecked havoc in these parts of Goa. As per newspaper reports, the resultant flash floods claimed at least two lives and caused extensive damage to over 400 houses. Over a thousand families were affected, their belongings and life savings lost and shattered. Around 5000 trees were uprooted; fields devastated and crops destroyed thus affecting the livelihoods of around 1700 farmers. The total damage, as per the State Government reports, has been estimated to be to the tune of around Rs 131 Crores. There are several NGOs who have taken up the cause of rebuilding the lives and livelihoods of the shattered citizens of Canacona. One of the leading local dailies, “O Heraldo” too is involved in the relief work. Please contribute generously to help our fellow Goan citizens. Contributions may be sent to ‘Herald Canacona Relief Fund’ or to any other trusted NGO working towards rehabilitating the Flood affected victims. Photographs of the devastation are available at the link below: http://picasaweb.google.co.in/sandeepheble/CanaconaFloods# yours sincerely Sandeep Heble
[Goanet] Canacona Floods The Art of Farting!
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible The unprecedented Canacona flood is something many Kankonkars are very likely to remember like a bad nightmare for the rest of their life. Hence I do not mean to negate the intensity of the disaster for those who were left without a roof over their head or were seriously affected in a number of other ways. Still the truth was somewhat like farting. Post flood many actually got diarrhea but others were only farting. Some people farted silently without making an exhibition of their turmoil within. Others farted openly making no secret of their troubles so that everyone that matters should notice. There were still others who not only farted shamelessly but held a mike to their arse to amplify it for better effect. The worst culprits are those who faked farting and did it so loudly that the Canacona Executive Magistrate (Mamlatdar) was too much of a fart to suspect anything. The response of the politicians and other opportunists to the disaster was inconceivable, nauseating, disgusting and at the same time amusing. One guy with his house on the Galgibaga coast who had sold his canoe a year back filed a claim for compensation signed by two witnesses vouching for the ‘loss’. One Prabhudesai, who managed to get Rs. 12000/-, was the first among scores of others to get compensation merely because the rain water kissed the steps of their business establishment or house. Another guy EB claimed he lost 400 coconuts. How did the coconuts wash away when the gate of his compound was securely closed? This is the obvious question the two-penny govt. officials did not ask him. A lady who fell at Chaudi while getting off a bus was reported by a local English daily as the victim of the flood. There were numerous claims of vehicle damage before the panchayat and the mamlatdar office. Shouldn’t they be knocking the doors of the MV insurance co. or may be the idea is to have it both ways. Nothing has changed for the scores of houses that were left flat in the wake of the flood but a certain former politician is taking up a bar restoration work on war-footing. Shame! Shame! Many stinking-rich families availed packets of 2kg rice, quarter kg daal, quarter kg sugar, 3 potatoes 3 onions and a bar each of bath soap and washing soap. I wish they were given a soap to scrub their unfeeling souls. Regards Tony martin Keep up with people you care about with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn how. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/connectmore
