MJR Janaki College is just on the other side of the bridge near Malar from here, so I just walked up this morning. Pipe and Danny landed up there by bike. Pipe won Shipwreck (1st), daamn good he was with Bipasha Basu and all and then Pipe and I went and won second on the quiz. We would have gone for more events but we didn't know there were any. Foolishness.
Anyway, the interesting part. After a while there were hailstones! Thumbnail diameter rocks of ice raining down along with water. I've never seen hailstones in Madras before, it was pretty cool. Unfortunately, the rain didn't last very long and when it had passed we ended up with hot and humid weather with a light drizzle. Let me tell you that this is like being steam-cooked. It was horrible. Anyway, I reached home by dodging puddles of water and staring at that old bridge. The old bridge they should make that a pedestrian bridge, just make it safe and stuff and keep the style. It looks really nice.
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Yeah, the hailstones were freaky. The road our college bus was taking was spattered white with those. Its the first time I've seen hail in Chennai.
BTW, isn't it MGR Janaki college? The one opposite Andhra Mahila Sabha?
MJR indeed. Idiot.
I've seen hailstones in my grandparents' town, 40 km from here. Still, rare.
Ha ha, yes, it is MGR. Typo'd it accidentally. I've never seen hailstones in Madras, though I have seen them once when we were in some place with a lake (Kodai?) and I was a little kid and on the lake was this duck and my dad was there with me and my mom'd gone to get something. I was a little kid then. The memory's all black-and-white and if you could catch that one still image that I can remember it would be a beautiful photograph.
Well.. the hailstones were nature's advertisement for our symposium "Avalanche" :p
Ha ha, very funny. Interesting name, that.