Chapter 31: free rations from the government
Chapter 31: free rations from the government
At the same time the work for most people was changed to work from home.
There is no wind and even if it blows a little it was the hot wind mixed with high humidity of water vapor.
Mohini stopped her adapting process and did the exercises only feeling up the sun at early morning for 5 or 10 minutes.
The sounds of asking for help would be heard from time to time because of the elderly unable to hold the temperature and high humidity.
The motor is already not in working state as the place began to submerge by the dirty water from the flood after 3 days at the start of December.
During this time the ice caps and the ice at poles started to melt at an alarming rate.
The power supply lines of community are gone but the internet is still working.
The power and water is gone making people sink down to despair.
Some people want to take the opportunity to leave at night to a high altitude area of surrounding mountain villages.
Well the water level only came till the knees of the adult in the first 3 days of December.
But they did not expect that there are lose power supplies in the water that still has power supply.
These things caused the people to electrocute and die when they are moving.
The work and production completely stopped except for few emergency services.
Mohini looked through the news on the phone during this time to see about the situation of the world through internet.
Most of the places are in the same situation and the power and water all over the world is gone.
Some special places still have power but they are military facilities.
The places near the coast lost the power supplies and water supplies because of extreme heat and submerging.
The places in high altitude have even higher temperature reaching 50 degrees directly burning the power supply lines and the underground water was also evaporated.
So the news updates are also gone.
But the network would work till the day of Christmas when the temperature reaches 55 degrees and then it will be offline too.
People have to rely on radios if they had to know the news from the government stations.
The charging in the phones has drained after the usage of phones for a few days after the power supply is gone.
Well there is relief from the government during the time as they came on boats to deliver some news from the government.
The news is that there will be distributing food packets and water as ration during the specific times in the evening.
The people should come with ID to get the ration.
There are armed people that came to help the person that distribute.
Also they mentioned that there will be government market where people can use their money to buy the things.
This was also arranged along with the ration people from the private market chains supporting the government.
So after receiving the rations people can buy the things from another boat that acts as market.
Mohini specifically saved 100,000 rupees in cash for this kind of situation and converted the rest into gold for later usage.
The market on the boat will only be there for a few days before the water level rises and temperature increases to 50 degrees.
After that even they would not make any move.
That is they will come two more time before completely stopping.
Now the cost of 1 kilogram of rice that is barely acceptable quality with at least 100 grams of dirt and stones would cost 1000 rupees.
With the same amount of money people could buy over 25 kilograms of rice just a month ago.
If it is sugar or salt or pulses or other things then the cost would be even higher.
They are selling water too.
1 liter of drinking water costs over 200 rupees.
The purity of water is not guaranteed.
Mohini plans to buy 50 thousand worth of things now and the next two times she would buy 30 thousand and 20 thousand after that.
This way she can come out the eyes of many people without getting into much trouble.
The people in the community have more money than Mohini has on her hands.
They should at least have 100 thousand rupees in cash.
She has already bought the heat insulated curtains before when renovating the flat.
Now she installed them so that the sunlight would not fry the room.
That evening Mohini went down the apartment building along with everyone when the big rubber boats arrived with many supplies.
There are men with guns on both sides and they moved from one apartment building to another.
There is water everywhere and it has already reached 4 feet from the ground.
Unless that person knows to swim they cannot get into the water.
Also this water is mixed with all kinds of sewer water.
So getting into the water is no better than rubbing many kinds of infections.
In the current situation getting infected is nothing more than death sentence.
The hospitals are already full with the people that were stung by the mosquitoes with high fever and other problems.
So this arrangement is made.
The current big supply boat is rations boat.
Every person would receive 2 kilograms of rice and 3 liters of water for week.
This is possible because they are living in high end community with many rich and influential people.
If it is not like that then the things would be much worse.
After giving the rations the supply boat move forward.
There are no vegetables or other things in the ration which shows that things are even worse.
The quality of rice is also not good.
It can spoil at any time in the humid atmosphere.
Behind the rations there is another big boat filled with supplies.
In that a merchant appeared with a price...…..
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