its pouring again ..

As i am glued to the screen watching streets of mumbai drown in water, images of july26th 2005 emerge in my eyes. And once again i thank god for my near.
After a 3 month long vacation i was on my way to mumbai. My train was running late by 3hrs and reached mumbai by 10. When i got down it was drizzling as expected in july. I caught a local and by 1130 i was in my room. It had started to rain heavily by then. In the next two hours it rained like cats and dogs disrupting the trains and the road traffic. By evening things were out of control, water level in the hostel had risen to a level that most of the rooms in the ground floor were half drowned leaving students running here and there.
It rained a total of 940 mm in one single day, more than what most cities get throughout the year and half of what mumbai gets during the whole season. The aftermath
Trains, flights, buses everything came to a stand still. My train was supposedly among the last ones which reached mumbai. For the next 3 days mumbai was cutoff from the rest of the world. Schools, colleges, offices closed.
Following months saw the maharashtra govt. making huge promises, but with mumbai drowning again i have no doubt that not even one would have been fulfilled.