As I crept through the night
Holding my pants really tight
I waited for it to be true
To be kept awake the night through.
The warning was clear and mighty
Will blow your candles and nightie.
It howled and whistled for a while,
Rustling the leaves and the textiles.
It thundered a little, it rained a bit
But then it was quiet in 60 minutes.
‘The storm is a mega‘, the MET department had warned,
Had me worried with no internet to mourn!!
The sky was cloudy in the morning
Today was the day for the warning.
It did not gust neither it blew,
All was normal as if nothing was new.
They shut the schools and closed their gates
For it would hail on the date.
Kids were happy, no school to go
They had the day to play with play-doh.
What do they do smoke at the MET
Need to have some to calm the sweat.
Coz when they give a special warn
Need to ask ‘Where’s the storm!!’
Ask a sailor who sails the seas
And who would certainly agree
For when the furore is not in sight
‘Where’s the storm!!’ ask he might.
This funny poem was contributed by a dear, dear family member of mine for the blog. He also happens to be a sailor like my husband and in fact, my husband and he are very fast friends. So in this piece, he tries to give the reader a sailor’s perspective of how they look at storm warnings by the weatherman. Most of us ignore the MET Department’s warnings on weather conditions. But as someone who has seen and been in the middle of bad weather at sea more times than most of us have in our entire lifetimes, bad weather warnings are taken rather seriously by sailors because storms at sea are notorious for being unpredictable.
I have experienced it first hand when I was aboard my husband’s merchant ship and trust me the sight of a frothing ocean and the ship being tossed on the gigantic waves is something to give you the fright of your life. To top it all the knowledge that if you die out here, you’ll die absolutely alone and no one may even find your body is scary as hell.
Here are some pics from the time when I witnessed a storm at sea.
These are from the time when the storm had started building. Watch this video recorded and uploaded by my husband to know what it’s like to be inside a ship when she is rolling through a storm.
I don’t mean to scare you guys in the morning itself. So I’ll stop here.
Have a great day!
Featured Image: jplenio at Pixabay.
Images: Pradita Kapahi and Gaurav Kapahi.
Watching the storm in movies itself is quite a scare Pradita. So I can very well imagine how it must be, to be amidst one. Hats off to these brave men!
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Hats off indeed! Thanks for reading Ma’am 😊
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Please call me Radhika. Ma’am makes me feel like an oldie 😉
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😂 Ok done Radhika 😊
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👍💜
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Storm on the sea, that would be double trouble for me. The waves are scary.
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They indeed are. Thanks for reading
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You’re welcome.
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Good contribution from the family member Pradita
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Thanks KJ 😊
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Always welcome Pradita
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Quite amazing. I have always been fascinated by the lives of the people working in the merchant navy. Thanks for sharing this stuff, it’s very interesting to me. 🙂
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Thanks a lot. Then you might like this article I’d written about my experience on board the vessel.
https://thepraditachronicles.com/2016/12/20/wireless/
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Thank you so much. 😀
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Welcome 🙂
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I have never been on a ship, and by the sounds of it, storms are pretty bad out there. But I would like to go out on a ship at some point. Hopefully there won’t be any storms! 🙂 I have to commend the people who go through storms out at sea.
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Commendable their job and their guts are. Thank you and I really hope that you go out to see aboard a fine vessel where you hopefully won’t have may trouble 😊
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Yeah!
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Beautifully written. Some like to play safe which explains why kids had a great time with no storm
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That’s true. I still like anndhi-toofans 😀
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Haha! sometimes that’s a phrase people use for their “better half”. It doesn’t require met warning 😉
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😂😂😂😂 Let’s hope your other half doesn’t get to read this
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Don’t worry…she won’t 😉
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😀 😀
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This is pretty amazingly written. 🙂
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Thanks. It was written by an Uncle of mine.
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That’s nice. 🙂
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Incredible. Those 30 degree rolls are terrifying.
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They are. I was once caught in a similar storm once and all I remember is holding onto the bed tight so as not to roll off it, and ugh… retching 😦
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“As I crept through the night
Holding my pants really tight
I waited for it to be true
To be kept awake the night through.
The warning was clear and mighty
Will blow your candles and nightie.
It howled and whistled for a while,
Rustling the leaves and the textiles.”
It must be my terrible male mind, but, as I read those words, I thought the poem was taking us to another place. That it may have been a report on an attack of gastro, a storm in the tummy. I thought that it was about hoping to make it to the bathroom before the ‘storm’ broke! 🙂 Dreadful me. Anyhow, it’s a great poem. The Pradita Chronicles strike again.
So the storm came
And the storm went
And well all its fury was spent
The sun came beaming through the trees
Then harbour was becalmed in gentle breeze.
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😂😂😂 Imagine that! But its OK. Happens to all of us. Sometimes I’ve written ‘haha’ for a very serious piece of someone’s. Dreadful!
This is not mine, though. It was penned by a shy cousin of mine who’s work I offered to publish on my blog so he could get some confidence. Thank you so much for those last lines. They’re so apt 😊👌
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Most happy to oblige. Please pass on my encouragement to your cousin. 🙂
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I will. Thank you again 😊
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