Delhi gets rain.....and how

Yesterday evening seemed like Rain Gods were fed up of the millions of Delhites asking for rain everyday....so they got up and just shut everyone up...it rained for 4 hours and I happened to be on the road for three of those lucky hours....the papers claim that 69mm is what it rained in 4 hours and normally delhi gets that in a month....so then all the blocked roads, floating cars,people walking back home is expected na....not when you are in the car for 2 hours when it takes you 20 mins everyday

It was unbelievably crazy....From my house to the chirag dilli flyover it took me 35 minutes....I was on my way to a friend's house (where I am never going again, next time there may be an earth quake) in VK and it took me an hour....and once I was there, I was like - it feels so good and finally it rained etc etc....I left for home at 10....and reached at 11.50....tried all possible routes but each was worse than the previous...metro construction helped block all short cuts and turn roads into rivers...really missed my Safari when I saw a scorpio cruise thru the rivers,splashing every1 else on the road....at essex, there were atleast 4 cars and 2 buses floating....people started walking back home...and maybe mumbai is used to it, but in del if you see people leaving their cars and walk you do get scared (to put it mildly, without abuses)...

Had it been any of my earlier co's, I might have come late to work today...citing maniacal traffic trauma....but then I have realised that when u work with expats, you are an employee later but a representative of ur country first ;-)....ethg becomes another excuse to blame India....I mean all of us love to hate the country sometimes too...but then thats just a good topic for conversation....nothing personal na....

Breaking news: K was supp to take the 07.20 shatabdi home and the train is only 2 hours late....poor guy has been sitting at the stn since 7 am, w/o his camera....

I still hope rains continue but with lil pre-conditions....rains only after 10 pm and all of us at home with a hot cup or a tall glass, thinking about poor sods like me who were stuck in traffic ;-)