Impact Of A Soul To A Soul From A Soul

I hate it! I hate it! Well, not exactly I guess. I don’t really hate the rain, but I guess when it brings devastation as it is accompanied by lightning and strong wind, is what makes me become all hatred fueled. I think rain is good. I believe rain is good. Rain helps us cleanse our earth and reduce pollution.

I was caught in the thunderstorm which poured and terrified those in the area of Subang and Shah Alam. It was a terrible storm I tell you, some even compared it with the movie “Twister”. I did now watch that movie so I could not comment on that but the storm did rate as the worst I have ever been caught in. It was certainly a frightening experience which I hope I do not have to relive it again, anytime soon or later.

I was basically driving less than fifty kilometers an hour my visibility was real low. I could only see the shadow of the car in front of me. Visibility caused me to drive at a lower speed with my eyes straining to make out where was I and the surrounding structure which I have only one word in mind “wet”.

As I drove along to reach my destination in Glenmarie, Shah Alam, the rained caused havoc along the path. At some parts of the federal highway, flooding started to occur, which some what is disturbing as it was just less than ten minutes since it poured. Imagine another sixty minutes, it could go so much higher…

Apart from flooding, I noticed that the barricade which the construction workers uses, those thing in white or red, where all over the place as you exit Subang. These plastic structures where flown all over the street by the mighty wind, but it was lucky that no accidents happened there, at least while I was using that route. I had to salute the workers who were collecting these plastid structures back to prevent further traffic jam and mainly to avoid accidents. They were fighting with the fury of mother nature during that fearsome time which I believe they deserve our salute.

Then as I turn towards Glenmarie, more flooding occurred, which left only one lane useable. Then another fright of my life happened as I stopped at one of the traffic lights. Sitting in my car I could hear the pounding of water against the body and the windows of my car. It was not something you would often hear, unless you like to sit inside your car during car washes or you often drive through to machine car washes. That was the sound I heard, like the water gun used by car washer to clean cars, imagine the force. Then I took a peek at the traffic light and to my surprise, the traffic light was wobbling like a vibrator as the wind hits it on its course. It was scary, scary to think if it might just give in to the force of the wind and just fall down like a fallen tree. At that moment, I heard a loud noise, something like crushed metal. I glanced quickly and I saw a big bill board crashing to the side like a piece of paper being blown away, but the three steel pillars holding it secure made it crashed down like a plane.

Then further along the road, fallen trees barricaded one lane. As I drove along, I could see more fallen trees, some on the road, some to the pavement damaging structures as it fell and some just everywhere on the road. I was shocked as I have never come across such atrocities. I was thinking to myself that I could have been killed at any moment at that time, be it fallen bill boards, fallen trees or even flood. What is happening? It was lucky that the thunderstorm subsided after about thirty minutes, if it were to go on for an hour or two, the devastation would be unpredictable. The damages done were reported on Friday, which was yesterday.

Sometimes it just makes me wonder, these are things that never happened or very seldom happens. I mean we are in a place where we escaped the landscape of earth quake, volcanic activities, hurricane and other types of disasters. Now that it starts happening not just here but the climate and weather of the world has started to change as well. Could this be a sign? A sign the earth is trying to tell us that it has had enough? Enough of our selfish behaviors! Enough of our pollutions! We have been taking it for granted for so many years, polluting the air, water and earth. This could be a way the earth is punishing us for trying to kill it. Or it may be god is punishing us as well, for all the nonsense we have created, such as war, crime, inhuman acts, etc.

I guess we should not ponder on those during these times, but to ensure we lend a hand to help those in need. Unity will help us survive through these bad times and in hopes it will join us all together and stop all unhealthy acts. I hope that life would be better with less natural disaster plaguing not only our society but throughout the world. Let us all pray that such monstrosities does not happen again.