No lessons learnt from floods.

This is a open space at front of our flats.It is opposite to the small temple that is built in the next flat.This space was absorbing all the rain water , recharging our wells and staving off flooding .Whilst streets few metres away used to be under water our street  never was thanks mainly to this open space.
Few years back it was filled with gravel and cemented alarming me at the thought that rain water will no longer be so easily absorbed .
During recent floods this open space became a swimming pool and our street under a sheet of water whilst just few yards away the roads were bone dry.
Yesterday night a thick concrete filling of this space was done the noise disturbing me .What is more disturbing is why lessons are never learnt from past calamities.Next time round if there is continuos rainfall with heavy spells i am sure the water will get collected over it.
In last floods waterswirled around ground floor of flats.Maybe next time around it may reach the first floor of all the flats in this area.