Rain and relief in Chennai

It rained yesterday and today's paper wrote of rain bringing relief for Chennities.

It rained heavily and continuously for three days and newspaper mentioned the need for relief for flooded victims!
This is Chennai and it is raining.
Chennai is where rain and relief are closely associated! It goes two way, like they said the two faces of a coin! but here it is confusing! You need two coin here. One for rain and relief and the other for relief and relief itself! The positive and negative relief.

It rained and brings relief as cooling down the humidity.
It rained and flooded and victims are given help, aid relief from the rain brought woes.
It happened to me as well....
I was in my haste to catch my cab. I didn't even spare a minute to submit my completed crosswords which can win me prize!
Take a seconds to shutdown my workstation and literally run down the lift!
Just in time to catching my pick up cab and then we speed off! But our high speed was really a short lived one. This IT corridor stretch which used to be a free runways was full of vehicles on both the sides.

Our driver skip the congestion and took a shortcut and on that too we're moving on a snail pace. Finally after some 45minutes we're out again on the highway again. We moved again slowly, inch by inch, hour by an hour and sometimes we're at halt for a long quiet time! Engine's dead, cab mates sleeping, others stretching and yawning, finally one cab mate preferred to walking and then he got out! Rest of us don't want to give up and we stayed inside the cab bearing the rain from inside, safe and warm.

The roads were full of vehicles on the either side and dropping lights. I see romanticism here!!
we arrived at one particular junction where we halt more than 45 minutes again. When we start pacing up that particular congestion it looks like a miracle when we start zooming!! The road which we took was a freeway and we speed more than the limit. The other side was full of vehicles as far as the eye can see. Ocean of lights when they switched onto their automobiles lights!

We got a hair rising scare when we get almost stuck in a drain but escape.
It was a big relief for all of us when we reached our safe zones. Being the second last person to be dropped I knew we were all safe then. Took around 3hours and 30minutes to reached home which was actually done in 40minutes in normal days! The main reason for the day's congestion was the human chain formed by Chennities in support for the Sri Lankan Tamils.

In Chennai:
Rain brought relief.
Rain brought havoc and the relief!
Rain brought irritation and relief from irritation!
Rain brought relief for farmers who longs for it for their crops!