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LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 12:37 PM Dec 2015

Chennai is underwater—and America’s outsourcing chiefs should be worried



I come from the beautiful city of Chennai in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

For the past few weeks, Chennai has been battered by relentless rains and flooding—the worst in over a hundred years. The city has been under water for many days. Power supply has been shut off due to safety concerns. Phone lines are down. Schools and offices are closed. The venerable local newspaper, The Hindu, failed to publish the daily edition for the first time in its history since it was launched in 1878. The airport is closed, and 3,500 people are stuck trying to get out. The common mode of transport in Chennai today is by boat. Yes, boat.

My immediate family members are either marooned in their homes with no power and telecommunication or have moved in as guests in high-rise condos belonging to friends and neighbors.

It continues to rain. There’s no respite expected for several more days. The government has declared Chennai a disaster zone, and the army has been deployed to help thousands of stranded citizens.


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Chennai is underwater—and America’s outsourcing chiefs should be worried (Original Post) LiberalArkie Dec 2015 OP
who knew.... phantom power Dec 2015 #1
they would have to move aside the stacks of filthy money to see that. nt navarth Dec 2015 #4
This has already caused a great disruption to many companies around the world. FLPanhandle Dec 2015 #2
No, but they may demand the outsourcing centers be moved ... JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2015 #11
how incredibly sad that picture is renate Dec 2015 #3
Climate Change at work. blackspade Dec 2015 #5
Cynical, but accurate perdita9 Dec 2015 #7
Sadly, yes. Juicy_Bellows Dec 2015 #8
A preventable tragedy perdita9 Dec 2015 #6
Congratulations to . . . Jack Rabbit Dec 2015 #9
Kick Liberal_in_LA Dec 2015 #10

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
2. This has already caused a great disruption to many companies around the world.
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 01:28 PM
Dec 2015

Channai is an outsource center for many old US jobs. I hope this wakes up companies to pull some of those jobs back here.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,340 posts)
11. No, but they may demand the outsourcing centers be moved ...
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 07:13 PM
Dec 2015

... maybe to Bangalore or other inland locations, far from the ocean.

renate

(13,776 posts)
3. how incredibly sad that picture is
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 02:24 PM
Dec 2015

Each one of those little tin shacks represent a family's entire worldly goods. They had so little and now they have almost nothing. And it's not as though they don't have to pay for those one-room dwellings, either. I just cannot imagine the suffering.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
5. Climate Change at work.
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 02:58 PM
Dec 2015

But the corporate class will just move on like the vulture capitalists that they are.
"Damn the downtrodden! Full profits ahead!"

Juicy_Bellows

(2,427 posts)
8. Sadly, yes.
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 03:31 PM
Dec 2015

"Hey Bob, on the next wave of 'off-shoring' can you pick a poor place with a little elevation? "

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
9. Congratulations to . . .
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 03:50 PM
Dec 2015

The Koch brothers and other conspirators pushing the global-warming-is-a-hoax hoax.

Is it time yet to put these reprobates on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean and ask the one last time before abandoning them, "Do you still believe climate science is a hoax?"

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