The Mumbai Floods of 2005
The above image is not taken from a water sport game involving buses. It’s in fact taken from the streets of our very own Mumbai city fifteen years back when heavy rainfall led to floods. This happened exactly on 26 th Jul, 2005 and today being an unfortunate anniversary of that dreaded day, let’s take a trip down memory lane. Mumbai City received more than 100 millimeters (mm) of rain fall on that day and such an event is categorized as ‘Cloud bursting’ or a sudden violent rainstorm. As the day begun, Mumbaikars (people living in Mumbai), started out their journey towards offices, schools, colleges, businesses, etc.... not knowing what was in store for them ahead. Suddenly, the clouds began to darken and the skies started to weep; people removed their shields which humans refer to as an ‘Umbrellas’ now-a-days and continued along their journey. As mentioned earlier, ‘Cloud bursts’ refer to a phenomenon where an area received more than 100