Deepavali Again (This Time in Words)

I would like to wish all people (and girls and boys) who read this post a Happy Deepavali. I tried not to burst as many bombs as last year, and I succeeded big time. I burst almost double the number of bombs that I burst last year! And for all the Earth-saving-ecologists who are new to this blog, don't worry! The number is still less, because last year I didn't burst many crackers as I had stitches on my knee (and I didn't say I burst 0 crackers because 0 X 2 = 0). And for those of you who thought I would say "The worlds gonna end anyway!", sorry, because I don't believe in nonsense... or movies for that matter.

So, if you look at the title, you will see that this post was supposed to be about Deepavali. Last year, I just uploaded a few videos of people in our colony bursting crackers, but this year I would like to share some information that my father pointed out in a newspaper (I still don't read the newspapers). There were actually two different articles. The first one said that the noise levels were reducing and they weren't as high as last year. This is good and I hope the noise levels go further down. But the second article said that there were much more dangerous gases released than last year. This is probably because people lit flower pots and sparklers instead of bombs (and if you substituted your bombs with flower pots, now is the time to look at your feet and feel guilty).

According to the first article, the noise levels on Deepavali compared to normal days, in Pragatinagar increased by ten decibels, 4 in Jubilee hills (on the same scale), 3 in Abids, 1 in Paradise and Punjagutta, 8 in Uppal, 5 in Jeedimetla and 1 in Zoo Park. I don't know two or three of these places, so if you are not from Hyderabad, I don't expect you to know any of them.

According to the second article, the air quality compared to normal days, the air quality was worse than normal. The air quality is measured by calcualting the amount of Particulate matter 10 (PM10) in the air. It is specified in micrograms per cubic metres. This year in Abids, the count increased by 84. Similarly, it increased by 134 in Kukatpally, 131 in Panjagutta, 98 in Jubilee hills, 70 in Uppal, 111  in Paradise, 19 in Balanagar and 31 in Jeedimetla. Overall, the PM10 increased by 71% on the day of Deepavali.

Sulphur dioxide and Nitrogen dioxide had gone up by 33% and 32% respectively, but were still within the prescribed standards. I would like to end this post on a negative note: whatever crackers we burst, the environment is disturbed, so we have no option but to burst less crackers or switch to electric crackers. Electric fireworks are new revolutionary lighting systems that simulate the look of  regular fireworks through the use of the latest lighting technology. Unlike normal fireworks, electric fireworks can be displayed for hours on end with several variations of pre-programmed firework effects!

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