Posted on 07/28/2005 8:59:22 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
Prayers from Pensylvania. Stay safe fellow FReeper.
Methinks the municipal government should travel to South Florida and study its drainage canal system. Flooding still occurs down there, though not as bad as in Mumbai.
Prayers from the Pacific Northwest. Stay safe, amigo!
New Orleans might be a better example.
But I was there in 1995 when 12 inches of rain fell in about six hours or so; the pumping system could handle an inch an hour.
In parts of the city water was upto the car handles.
Near the quarter it was upto to one's knees for a while.
I'll never forget 1. having to wear high waterproof boots over my suit pants to get to my car after a summer storm in Miami and 2. turning down a side street on the way to work and having my car start to float.
Stay safe man. Is Santa Cruz hit really bad, I have relatives there. I better call and check
It rained for 40 mins here in Upstate NY and streets were flooded ;-)
Stay safe man
...prayer from the Rocky Mountains that you'll be safe.
Just curious.
Megh:-)
What do you do in Delhi? I'm in Delhi often....
Hi everybody and a very nice and wet morning from here in Mumbai. Its back to business as usual..... and the weather is slightly better today.......... Well only slightly................
More pictures here:
Great wall of SEEPZ demolished by heavy downpour....Today Morning..
All fencing and lamp posts near that wall were destroyed....Today Morning
This is the way to ICH...Full of water... Yesterday Evening...
A large construction site about 20ft deep filled with flood water now.... Looks like a lake...Today Morning...
Roads inside SEEPZ....Heavy rain Yesterday evening..
Roads flooded with water....Yesterday evening..
A car drowned in flood water inside SEEPZ....Yesterday evening...
Violent water flow on the roads of mumbai.....
Thank you everybody for all your prayers. I am quite safe here.
Thank you all once again!
My friend in mumbai was stranded for 15 hrs in traffic. You in pune right?
I just returned from a 2 week trip
in and around Delhi
where I was hoping to be cooled
by the monsoon rains.
Most of the time
it was hot, sunny and humid.
I guess I went to the wrong place.
I am right now in Mumbai for over a week. Will be going back to Pune in a day or two.
How are things? I heard the expressway is completely gone (well landslides near Bhatan tunnel etc.). fantastic tales -- 9 feet deep water at Dharavi etc.
lol yes, i always liked the ocean
Got some news from Bombay from relatives, FWIW,
an 8 year old girl spent the night in her schoolminibus on the way back to Santa Cruz
another girl spent the night at a friend's house so close to her flat that she could wave to her mom near juhu beach
another spent the night downtown too at TOI offices
a cousin in santa cruz got nailed too, near the old airport.
But there are 14 million stories in that city now....
Good to hear things are getting better.
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