hubballi shilpa murkhandi a nurse working in a private clinic is struggling to get her life back on track after incessant rains damaged her fathers house in vikas nagar she is living with her parents sisters and her child water from a nala gushed into her house last week and swept away cash and jewellery the family lost all its savings and food grains in the flood the family now does not have the money even to buy foodshilpa said she earns a meagre salary and that her sisters too did not earn handsome salaries we also have to take care of our ailing parents our financial condition is very bad and i am not even sending my child to school as i cannot afford to buy new notebooks she saidshilpa said her family was going to a relatives house to have lunch and dinner our gas stove was damaged in the floods now we have no money to rice and other essential items someone should help us in this critical situation officials had promised help but no one has helped us so far she addedvenkatesh kabadi a resident of vikas nagar said he was living in her grandmothers house in golden town as he had to drain out water and get his house repaired his house was inundated on august 6 and all his equipment including a refrigerator and television were damaged to rub salt on his wounds he lost his shop at an hdmc complex in myader oni the civic body had earlier decided to demolish the building as it was dilapidated kabadi does not have ajob now and needs to support a family of six he said he needs help to restore his life as well as his house and alleged that no officials have helped them in the time distresschandu pujari who runs a photo studio in akshay colony said his computers printers and furniture were damaged by floodwater he said the interiors of the studio were badly damaged as the shop was in the basement of a building