kochi kadungalloor residents have almost been pushed to the point of insanity as they have in front of them a virtually insurmountable task to clear the piles of slush debris and sediments periyar has deposited at their homes praveen p k a painter visited his house after nearly a week in the camps to find out that this home has been covered with slush he has no idea where to begin the cleanup job what do i do with this mud what can i do said praveen before breaking into a hysterical laughter with his neighbours praveen had moved out of his house to camp with his family two weeks ago when the shutters of cheruthoni dam was first opened he moved back and cleaned the slush from his home on august 13 only to leave again on august 15 as water level in the area increased over 7ftdinil p a rickshaw driver and praveens neighbour said we are no more crying about our losses because there is nothing we can do about it most people living here are dailywage workers and we cant even bear the cost we have all slipped into madness now dinil who began ploughing the area on tuesday morning with help of his son and soninlaw was able to make a path to his home by afternoon the government has to help us they need to send an earthmover to remove this mud we cannot start living here otherwise said dinilelectricity hasnt come back yet and most houses still have no access to drinking water we have started cleaning homes but we cant live here the smell is unbearable the shops here dont have any material required for cleaning said sunil xavier another residentresidents said they were stunned to see water rushing to their homes and rising to dangerous heights i work at a hospital in edappally i left for work on august 15 and when i reached the hospital my neighbour called up and told me that the area was being flooded and that i needed to move my things by the time i reached kadungalloor it was too late all my belongings are now ruined said k p shantamany of them moved to uc college for shelter but found no respite there were over 5000 people there and they had around 30 volunteers who were also trapped there it was dogeatdog environment you fought for everything if you didnt fight for your food then you are left to starve said ibrahim m s