Around 4 pm Bangalore became dark. If you didn’t have the watch you would easily thought it was 7 pm. It began to drizzle. And, then suddenly… the clouds just opened up… It began to pour, and pour, and pour. It must have lasted just 45 minutes or at the most an hour.
In no time, the hi-tech city seemed to be sinking, as roads filled up with water. The city’s most well-known street, M.G. Road, resembled a lake! The Ulsoor lake overflowed flooding nearby areas. The city came to a standstill.
This isn’t the first time we’ve had heavy showers. But it’s the same story over and over again. Roads are such that water wouldn’t drain off. And if they do drain off, the drains are such that water wouldn’t flow out.
Isn’t it any surprising, when our adminstrators care a damn for public life. How can the administrators be so different from the ordinary citizen who have little civic sense, and dump all the litter on to the drains!
There’s more to follow. The monsoon proper is setting in in the first week of June.
Bangalore flooded!
May 27, 2005 by Pradeep
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