A passage through flood

I used to pass through big and small villages of District Badaun and Shahjahanpur while my visits to shahjahanpur always thinking that perhaps nothing has changed here in last sixty something years since independence except for some motorbike below buttocks and cellphones in hands. Pathatic roads, mud-clad nude children, dung all over the road, men and women with disgustingly scratchy faces and untidy hair, females squatting roadside to attend nature calls, sordid living conditions all constitute an unsightly vista depicting a heavenly plot for an English movie maker aspiring to make an Oscar winning film.
This time also i pass through having synonymous feelings but on my return the scene and my thoughts both had changed. The panorama was water horrendously all over. In fact during my onward journey also i had to take an alternate route as the flood water started flowing over the road at some places but i could not imagine that the situation would worsen to such extent in a matter of just hours. While i was filled with my selfish and timid thoughts of escaping the area any how as soon as i could, i had seen people sitting on charpayees at their gates with water all inside their homes, young boys in water up to their chins carrying bales of their household good over their head to get these at road side which is not merged yet, men carrying oldies on their shoulders, families migrated to roadside with grains bags and cattle. There are countless conspicuous losses forget about insidious long lasting future ramifications. I was boggled at the irony that when people in metros are cherishing the joy of air conditioning, cars, malls, multiplexes etc. their fellow countrymen in villages are struggling to save their already deprived lives.
After this prolix i will share an interesting awkward thing i had seen. when this water was crossing road and entering into villages some of the residents were using this opportunity to wash their motorcycles and bicycles on the road like this is all the water they ever had. I am not sure whether this is funny or not but this indicate the vision of the people here and perhaps the reason for underdevelopment.