20th July: It's the day the sky went beserk!!!

Woke up to a drizzle , which went ballistic…..

In the month & a half that we have been here , I have not seen such a downpour!! The rain drops were no comparison to the one’s we had witnessed in Manchester. A complete deluge with a soundtrack of thunder & the lightening, with a backdrop of the darkness , the black clouds ….. a weather which screamed … do not u try and attempt to go and party tonight… how in the heavens name did the weather gods know , I am to go out partying with Shaun’s friends is something I will not understand. But , have to listen to the weather gods, coz they always listen to me .. so I decide to call Shaun & cancel the bar night.

And then Hallelujah …. The Sun surface, to a lovely sunny day!!! But the day witnesses a complete mayhem with the cloud burst!! Mumbaikars , do not fret, when a cloud burst happens, it takes even the best of the developed nation by surprise & leaves them High and dry!!!

The rains came with a vengeance, with a rise of water level, an onslaught where regular simple rain puddles on streets turned to streams, where sewage water came on the roads, where support & help from the police or council, was no where to be seen, where homes were under more than 6 inch of water, where there is water logging, traffic jam, Heathrow flooded, flights cancelled, flights delayed ( Sabrina gets back today & her flight is delayed by 5 hours!! ), … name it …. You have it all, where it’s only the good Samaritan’s of regular junta helping each other. Where one car hits another coz they cannot see the other car in the water log, where, when I go shopping in the evening I hear someone say … can you imagine, my friends car was completely submerged in water!!??? Does this scenario remind us of an episode in our lives???? You bet it does … & somehow, I cant help but say, it can happen to anyone , can happen anywhere ……… when something of this magnitude happens, the machinery stops to function …. Sometimes, blame game is not called for ……

And the beauty of it all, when the water logging subsides, a traffic warden comes around, giving tickets to cars parked in the wrong place!!! Hey bhagwaan … wot next!!!;-)

Highlight … truly has to be the fact, that even thought the weather takes a complete turn, Shaun & his plan to meet his friends fizzles out…. Guess partying cannot happen when I am not there, can it now ??? ;-)