Couple of kids enjoying the sun after maybe... two weeks....
We have a school here in the hospital campus and it had to shut down for a while because of the rain..
Today was a busy day... But as I was not on call, I accompanied li'l Christine on a walk... And when she saw this lovely tractor she had to drive it ... This by the way is the vehicle that takes food and other relief material to the villages along with the disaster management team.....
It's amazing how the flora recovers from an insult so drastic... and that too so fast... It's just stopped raining and the grass is already growing above my ankles... and there are wild lilies all over the place... yellow and pink ones.... The whole place looks fresh and beautiful..
Wild pink lilies along the pathway... These are lovely flowers that greet me in the morning the next day after a rain.. if the sun is up... They line the whole pathway and make it look beautiful, together with the yellow ones...
All over the place new flowers are blooming and they look real fresh.... It is hard to imagine that just two days back all these plants were all under water....
It is green everywhere you look.. Put this snap in just to reproduce the wet and green feel......
And Dr. Shishir's flowerbed is full of blooms again... though still bearing signs of having been molested by the rain... ;-)
Even the sky looked so clear and bright today....
Not a single dark cloud in the sky...
The moon seemed to be happy to be up earlier than usual today... it looked quite big and I was lucky to get this really zoomed in shot.... 
The same day, the disaster management team had gone to Sigauli, a village about 20 miles from Raxaul. A lot of folks from all over India have come to Raxaul, as volunteers. I met a couple of dental interns... and this is what they had to say....
Jerry and Ashwin aka 'Zach' posing in front of the relief vehicle. Thanks Zach for letting me take your pictures and put them online.
A village built on higher ground converted into an island by the flood......
Found it difficult to believe that these pictures were taken the same day as the ones I did...
With their farmland inundated by the rain... people are resorting to fishing to feed themselves...
As soon as the water rises there are fish everywhere.... at least in the campus... from one ward it was rumored that they caught about a kilo of fish... ;-)
A house wrecked by the rain....
Looks like it is still inhabited...
Snakes are in plenty here and they take the lives of many people as it takes more time to travel through the flood water.... This one here is not poisonous though....
The road ended there and the rest of the trip was on a boat....
Another partially destroyed house..... And i was worried about getting my carpets wet.....
Part of the relief team......
Part of the village under water with the huts barely spared.....
People would just rush toward the boat as it arrived, for the food packets.... They had a tough time convincing the people that there were enough packets for everyone....
That's how deep it gets at some places.....
The guy was actually their boatman... who was so drunk that he jumped off the boat.. ;-)
It is really difficult to believe that the water is so deep just about a half hour away from the hospital.... And this probably is just the beginning... the real killers are probably going to be the diseases that would spread like wildfire because of such an environment.... The medical team that went to the villages saw a lot of bizarre cases today... so we might be in for something major soon.....
Found it difficult to believe that these pictures were taken the same day as the ones I did...
With their farmland inundated by the rain... people are resorting to fishing to feed themselves...
As soon as the water rises there are fish everywhere.... at least in the campus... from one ward it was rumored that they caught about a kilo of fish... ;-)
A house wrecked by the rain....
Looks like it is still inhabited...
Snakes are in plenty here and they take the lives of many people as it takes more time to travel through the flood water.... This one here is not poisonous though....
The road ended there and the rest of the trip was on a boat....
Another partially destroyed house..... And i was worried about getting my carpets wet.....
Part of the relief team......
Part of the village under water with the huts barely spared.....
People would just rush toward the boat as it arrived, for the food packets.... They had a tough time convincing the people that there were enough packets for everyone....
That's how deep it gets at some places.....
The guy was actually their boatman... who was so drunk that he jumped off the boat.. ;-)
It is really difficult to believe that the water is so deep just about a half hour away from the hospital.... And this probably is just the beginning... the real killers are probably going to be the diseases that would spread like wildfire because of such an environment.... The medical team that went to the villages saw a lot of bizarre cases today... so we might be in for something major soon.....
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