{"id":4386,"date":"2012-07-01T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-12-29T21:33:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:33:02","slug":"lack-of-heavy-rains-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"Lack of heavy rains in Kerala !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<b><span style=\"color: yellow;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">The situation is precarious in Kerala. The water catchment basins at Idukki and Sabari Giri have only water for five days. Heavy rains have not yet lashed Kerala. During the fag end of Makiryam Njattuvela, it rained, but there were no heav<\/span><span style=\"display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">y rains. Fierce rains have not made their presence felt so far.<\/p>\n<p>For 15 minutes, it rained cats and dogs in Guruvayur just now. But the duration was not long. If fierce rains do not take over, I shudder at the prospect of power cuts !<\/p>\n<p>I wont to be able to work on FB for longish hours !<\/p>\n<p>We hope the fag end of Thiruvathira will be characterised by heavy rains. If not, Kerala is doomed !<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b><span style=\"color: yellow;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><b>At<br \/>\nnight<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow;\"><span style=\"display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><b><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<b><span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><b>Alarming situation in Kerala.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\"><b><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><b>It rained decently from 0800PM to 0900 PM, but then this is not enough<br \/>\nto fill the Idukki and the Sabari Giri reservoirs. It is drizzling now. Hope<br \/>\nthere will be heavy rains.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\"><b><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><b>People will laugh when they come to know that a state depends on<br \/>\nMonsoons to generate electricity. No monsoon, no power, that seems to be the<br \/>\nsituation in Kerala.&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\"><b><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal medium\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><b>Hail the voters who elected this Govt !<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"color: yellow; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline; line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vPpgRKyHm_0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"display: inline; line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation is precarious in Kerala. The water catchment basins at Idukki and Sabari Giri have only water for five days. Heavy rains have not yet lashed Kerala. During the fag end of Makiryam Njattuvela, it rained, but there were no heavy rains. Fierce rains have not made their presence felt so far. For 15 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lack of heavy rains in Kerala !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}