Ambasamudram and Agasthiarpatty Yesterday - 562

     A  Scorching Heat Here / B Freezing Cold There 

Today is the last day of March and the Summer is upon us at Ambasamudram in a telling manner . It is terribly hot till about 3 pm and a bout of strong wind and heavy summer downpours follow . This has been the pattern for almost a week now .

This pattern took a very serious turn for the worse  yesterday . It was particularly hot till about 3 pm when all of a sudden , very heavy wind with lightening and thunder followed with an equally powerful shower of windy rain .

Many trees and power lines got uprooted so much so that the fallen trees completely blocked the road to Papanasam near the Agasthiarpatty Primary Health Center. 

I seem to have had an experience of both the extremes.  Scorching Summer Heat and Freezing Cold have both been part of me for almost a decade now .

We belong to a place called Ambasamudram in Southern Tamilnadu, India . This place though comfortable weatherwise for most part of the year becomes very hot during the summer months of April to Mid June . The temperature hovers around the mid to late 30 Degrees Centigrade during this period . We have got used to this and overcome this with the help of the various appliances now in the market.

As I have already mentioned before , I have been a frequent visitor to Canada , visiting my Daughter and Son settled there .

Ten  years back , I was at Regina in the Saskatchewan Province of Canada . I had already visited this province before but at relatively better climes . This time it was on the 11 th of December , co-passengers and my daughter had already warned me that it would be terribly cold and windy when we landed there  and that  our arrival would hardly be a Welcome one Weatherwise . Sure enough , the travel from the Regina Airport exit to the car Parking Lot  was a Himalayan task . Freezing cold and the blustery winds  and snowflakes all around , with your feet sinking in to snow almost to your knees  made it all the more difficult .

 Thermal Innerwear , 2 layers of inner and outer Jacket ,coat , leather gloves , headcap with a hood to cover the ears and heavy spiked shoes were  of little comfort . That we were never used to these heavy winter clothing went on to make it even more discomforting .

We were there at Regina  to help out with  my daughter s delivery . Sure enough , my grandson was born on 20 th December and guess what , the temperature was  MINUS 47 Degrees Fahrenheit.  The entire area as far as one  could see  was a sparkling white sheet of  snow and  the trees were only stumps without a single leaf or a blade of grass anywhere around . The play ground which used to be  lush green normally did not even have any sign of vegetation of any sort  .

We did get over it  , but the change from the Indian Summer of Agasthiarpatty to the Canadian Winter of Regina does send shivers down our body everytime a winter or snow is mentioned even in passing by anyone .

This brings into focus the scorching heat , the summer rains and the heavy winds which brought about an all around disruption of services yesterday at Ambasamudram .

Lucky to be a part of Best/Worst of Both the Worlds