Chennai floods that had damaged thousands of people life in Chennai and their properties. The flooding in Chennai city was worsened by years of illegal development and inadequate levels of flood preparedness. Rains continued lashing Chennai for over a week. Most of the city remained flooded. Chennai received the highest rainfall since 1901. The flooding in Chennai was described as the worst in the century by NASA in a video.

People from all over the country came forward to help and rescue the people in Chennai. Tamil Nadu Government was unsuccessful in rescuing and conducting relief activities. Later, Indian Army and Air Force had done a good job in helping people from the flooded areas. They had even distributed foods packets to the people from the chopper.

As the food packets were thrown and dropped from the chopper, the food is getting wasted and most of the food was falling on the ground. Thus, these guys planned to convey the matter to the Army soldiers in the chopper. They wrote ‘FOOD SPOILED’ on placards and showed them to the soldiers.

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“When the first army chopper came, the food that they dropped was spoilt. Of course, they are not the ones to blame. So we prepared a huge plywood banner and an A4 sheet that read ‘FOOD SPOILED'(sorry for the typo) and held it up from the terrace in case another chopper came by. And another one did, and in order to read it, they came as close to the terrace as possible and shot us a ‘thumbs up’. One of the officers in the chopper asked me to come to the top of the tank on the terrace. I ran as fast as I could and when I got there, they handed me another food package consisting of ready-to-eat food like chapatis, biscuits and bananas. The best part was that they didn’t throw the package this time…they actually gave it to me in my hand. That’s how low they came down. And yes, the word ‘FOOD’ on the banner flew away because of the wind force created by the chopper.”

– Lalith Raja

Via I am Madras.

These guys idea had worked out. Seeing the placards, soldiers realized and changed their way of distribution. They came very close to the people to give the food packets and reduced the damage percentage.