Mumbai Goes Underwater

Shocking it all seems, thing is its so real.
Manas Says"It was crazy, there were cars fallen in gutters, people checking out the rail tracks for damage, trees broken, roads flooded!! It was worst than a post war scenario!!!"
July 26 - August 1st:The chaos was a brutal reminder of Bombay's rickety infrastructure, despite a hugely ambitious $6 billion plan to turn it into the next Shanghai. These seven days were something which had thrown a lot of lives out of sync, the reason?, our city experienced record rainfall of 94cms. Rainfall at this time here is usual, but this high wasn't expected by anyone, not even out meterological department, and this unprecedented deluge, left most parts of mumbai city and its suburban sections submerged. This phenomenon is what the meterological guys call Offshore Vortex, in which ther is a heavy downpour but extremely localised. Rescue teams reached the village of Juigaon, 150 km (90 miles) south of Bombay, and began digging for survivors and bodies after a landslide flattened or buried more than 30 houses late on Tuesday. Officials estimated 100 to 150 people may have been caught in the avalanche of mud. The worst-affected regions south of Bombay i.e. suburbs. Electricity and phone links were cut, schools were shut and commuters were stranded for two days as trains and buses were cancelled. Mumbai airport, the country's busiest, was clearing its waterlogged runway but by Wednesday evening airlines said they were still not operating. Cars and buses were abandoned in the north of the city and thousands of commuters who spent the night in offices or hotels walked 20 kms (12 miles) or more from the center to their homes. Commuter Alex Anthony, 44, said it had taken him 14 hours to reach home in the early hours of Wednesday, walking on rail tracks and wading chest-deep through water. "It was like a river outside the station," he said. "Firemen tied ropes to lamp-posts and a chain of people held onto it to get through the water." Trading on Bombay's bond and currency markets was abandoned, flights in and out of the city were rerouted or canceled and the government called a state holiday for Wednesday and Thursday, advising people to stay at home. Companies postponed board meetings and tourists to the city of 15 million people waited for news about their flights, with the lobby of the swanky seafront Taj Mahal hotel filled with disconsolate travelers and their luggage. Post 1st august, Trains were running, albeit with delays, and Bombay's airport had started operating normally. Workers who had finally made it home on Thursday, after one or two nights in hotels, on office floors or on the street, began returning to work, and trading on financial markets resumed. Relief coordinators put the city's death toll at about 370, over half the total for the whole of the state of Maharashtra. A landslide at a slum near the Bombay suburb of Andheri killed at least 56 people, and efforts continued to retrieve dozens more bodies believed to be buried in the mud. Newspapers reported that about 16 people, including three teenage college students, had died in their cars, trapped by rising water levels which jammed the doors. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, visiting Bombay on Thursday to announce a 5 billion rupee aid package for relief work, said the city's infrastructure needed modernising to be fit enough for the country's commercial capital.