Kurnool flooded: Marriage celebrations turn sour

U Sudhakar Reddy/Kurnool

The marriage celebrations of a medical college lecturer turned soar within hours as the flood hit his house on the wedding day in Kummaristreet.Happiness of the marriage in the family evaoporated as Tunagabadra levels rose on October 1st and 2nd in Kurnool. The newly wed couple Mr S Naveen Kumar and Swapna has to leave to Proddutur to relatives house from marriage hall in Venkataramana Colony without even coming back to their house.The three storied house after four days still have serial lighting bullets decked up for wedding but with the tears of the parents of Naveen who says they could not even do satyanarayanavratam.

S Manohar father of Naveen says ,”My elder son is a post graduate in Bio Chemistry is working as lecturer in a medical college at Raichur. On October 1st morning around 11.25 am we have conducted the marriage. As the talambralu is held in the function hall they have to come back home but meanwhile flood water hit our house,”Manohar’s wife who was cleaning hundreds of buckets of mud water entered into the first floor of their house ,”we are supposed to have a happy time as this is first wedding in the family. We ended up cleaning dirty water and all valuables and material including madi biyyam(marriage tradition rice) and goddess pictures also got wet and soaked. The pellipandiri(marriage tent) on the terrace has to be removed on third day after marriage but it is not done as the couple didn’t come here.

The bride and bridegroom instead of spending happier time kept calling us to find out our safety. As we have many relatives they all came but left hurriedly after the marriage,”Manohar and his wife and a few people in the locality didn’t go to the relief camp and were staying on the water tanker on the third floor for more than 48 hours fearing washed away in the floods.Mr C Kistaiah another flood victim principal in Jyothismrithi College of Pharmacy in Turkapally in Hyderabad a neighbour of the bridegroom Naveen says ,”it was pitch dark in the locality for the past four days in the nights. The power is not restored so far. My kids are studying here at Kehsava Reddy School so I come here once in a month. We were on the top of the building along with wife and children,”Several government department employees residing in these colonies couldn’t get back to their duties yet.“Mr A Krishna Assistant Registrar in Co-operative societies of Chittarigerry says ,”there was no proper information on flood. They didn’t tell it was this much serious. It came devastating. All the electronic goods, food stocks are spoiled. Here we have a habit of buying rice for a year and stocking,”