Bombay is floating on water - one headline says. I couldn't agree more. A lot of friends have blogged about them, their family members, their friends, being stuck and their consequent troubles. Hope everyone pulls through later today home safe and sound. It has not rained much since noon so things should limp back to normal by nightfall. The clouds in satellite photos show no signs of letting up over the next couple of days though.

Here in IIT:

• H12-H13's mess had become a swimming pool yesterday night. It is in the basement right by the lake - could the architect have foreseen this?
  
• The new Elec. Engg. department building had some (ankle deep) water on the ground floor. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th floors were dry. On the 5th floor however, monitors were said to have been floating in water. Turns out the water collected on the roof came down the stairs.
  
• beerbal became a refugee in our first floor rooms after his bed, mattress, and chair were found floating in nearly waist deep water. All of H8 seemed like an extension of Powai lake. Dinner in the mess was in ankle-deep water.
  
• All restaurants opposite campus were closed or were reverse draining and hence avoidable. The main road was completely devoid of traffic and umbrella clad orsoaking wet junta were ruling the road for a change at 10pm.
  
• The fruit vendor nalla had become a major gushing river - a force to reckon with.
  
• There was a mini Kanda Bhaji party an hour ago, so that was nice.
  

Go 92.5 FM was amazing today morning. Acting as news service, info service, helpline, patch-through agency, all in one. Cheers.

Mumbai apparently has a disaster management plan - wonder what happened to it. The disaster manager got stuck in the rains I guess.

The BSE Sensex crossed 7600 today. It was open today, because, apparently, no one went home yesterday.

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