Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Last 24 hours have been quite tough for the Mumbaikars, as the financial capital of India was struck with heavy rainfall, the highest to be recorded since 2005.

It has been continuously raining from past 24 hours in Mumbai affecting the daily lives and traffic and rail routines in the metropolis. The last such incident was experienced on July 26, 2005, when there was about 950 mm rainfall in 24 hours. As per the weather reports the city recorded 298 mm of rainfall in just a single day.

Though nature is at peace for some time the Weather Bureau has asked the people not to leave their houses on Wednesday unless an emergency as more heavy showers is in the forecast. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has declared a public holiday for the city and the suburbs and also urged the people to stay home.

Shiv Sena who has been ruling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in Mumbai since two decades appreciated the work of the civic bodies saying that in spite of heavy rainfall no major casualties happened and the situation did not go out of hand. An editorial of Shiv Sena, Saamana read that, “The BMC’s preparedness to tackle the natural calamity ensured that the situation did not go out of hand. The civic body should be complimented for this. Even after heavy rains, no big untoward incident has taken place.”

Although Mumbai Traffic Police said that the roads are now clear, but the traffics still seems to be crawling as many have abandoned their vehicles on the roads in a hurry to safely reach their homes ass soon possible. Regarding the local train schedules, Western Railway services resumed on Tuesday night while Central Services resumed on Wednesday morning. The train between CST To Panvel left after 9 am on Wednesday.

While the daily routine is trying to get back to normalcy after the deluge, more heavy rainfall is forecasted by the Weather Bureau and people have been requested not to leave their homes.