FELLOWSHIP MEETING
Fellowship meeting was conducted in Vellore, Chennai on 26.05.2024.
Revelations:
- Sol.Pinky Patrick: An angel thrust a sword from heaven downward into the earth.
- Sol.Karthick: SMLAs appointed to all the 6 constituencies in Vellore district were given the keys of their respective constituencies in their hands by God.
PROPHECY NEWS
WAYANAD LANDSLIDES: WHEN NATURE REWROTE THE MAP
The devastating landslides that wiped out two villages show that climate change is here to stay and the need for adaptation is clear and present.
“This was Mundakkai,” murmurs a rescue volunteer, pointing towards his right. From where we stand, atop a destroyed house, the view is frightening. A huge expanse of land lies in front of a tall mountain, the earth raw and wounded, like a vast, long scar. The soil is a muddy palette—ochre, russet, and umber mashed up by nature’s rough hand. The terrain is chaos itself—churned and pitted, studded with rocks torn from sleep. Ripped open, the land’s guts spilling over for all to see, and a newly enlarged river gleaming like fresh gashes as a bunch of excavators claw deep, leaving grooves and furrows that snake across the site.
This is Mundakkai, a small, serene village in Kerala’s Wayanad district that, along with the nearby villages of Punjirimattom, Chooralmala, and Attamala, was ravaged by three consecutive landslides in the wee hours of July 30, 2024. Heavy rains triggered the landslides whose source was later discovered to be at Punjirimattam. In the 48 hours leading up to the morning of July 30, the Mundakkai region saw a staggering 572 mm of rainfall. Hillsides collapsed as a result, sending a torrent of mud, water, and boulders crashing down. The debris flowed into the affected areas below the mountains, which lay as much as 5-6 km away from the source of the landslide. At least 250 people died in the natural calamity. Unofficial estimates put the death toll at over 400 as there were more than a hundred people yet to be found and several body parts yet to be identified when this writer visited the site.
Kerala woke up to a panic-hit morning on July 30 as news channels started airing shocking stories of hundreds of people trapped in the mud and even more missing or already presumed dead. Mundakkai was isolated for hours as the sole bridge that connected the village to nearby Chooralmala and the rest of the world was destroyed in the landslide that had set off a fresh, furious river stream. The “new” river of debris gobbled up everything that stood in its way, including the Vellarmala Government Vocational Higher Secondary School (GVHSS) in Chooralmala.
It was a frantic SOS call from Neethu Jojo, an executive at the Wayanad Institute of Medical Sciences (WIMS) in Meppadi, that first alerted the authorities of the massive landslide around 1:30 am. “Our houses are flooded. There has been a landslide. We won’t survive if another one breaks. Please save us,” Neethu could be heard pleading with WIMS personnel in a widely televised audio clip that went viral following the disaster.
Rescue workers recovered Neethu’s dead body on August 3. By then the astonishing magnitude of the catastrophe, one of Kerala’s largest and most impactful natural calamities, had unravelled through media reports, social media posts, and the urgent testimonies of survivors.
Vellarmala GVHSS alone lost 32 students. The teachers said 22 bodies were recovered and 10 were still missing. “We are yet to come to terms with the shock. This was a beautiful school, and a peaceful village populated with such lovely people and their children. One night of natural fury wiped out all the happiness we had amassed over the years,” Unnikrishnan, the school’s headmaster, told Frontline. “I don’t know how I will face my children when they ask about their friends.”