For the last three days and nights, everyone was waiting for floods. Under the grey skies, residents hoped the waters spare them this time but they knew it was just a matter of time before their houses submerged. While some were being evacuated, others were busy shifting their goods to the second floor of their two-storey building. At 1.30 p.m., the water finally breached the one embankment that was standing in between and came roaring towards them.
“We last saw floods here in Natipora in 1996. We almost forget that there could be floods, and kept investing in houses and property,” said Mohammad Shafi, a 51-year-old shopkeeper, even as he was busy selling milk powder, candles and baby-food to a horde of anxious people who want to stock up on essentials.
Scores of neighborhoods now find themselves marooned in their three-storey houses and are looking for safe places to park their big vehicles.
Nearby, on both sides of the Nowgam-Lasjan Highway on the outskirts of Srinagar, dozens of new vechiles were battling water inside the showrooms. Army personnel rescued people from the second floor and ferried them to the safety of the highway.
“We last saw floods here in Natipora in 1996. We almost forget that there could be floods, and kept investing in houses and property,” said Mohammad Shafi, a 51-year-old shopkeeper, even as he was busy selling milk powder, candles and baby-food to a horde of anxious people who want to stock up on essentials.
Scores of neighborhoods now find themselves marooned in their three-storey houses and are looking for safe places to park their big vehicles.
Nearby, on both sides of the Nowgam-Lasjan Highway on the outskirts of Srinagar, dozens of new vechiles were battling water inside the showrooms. Army personnel rescued people from the second floor and ferried them to the safety of the highway.
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