37" of rain in one day, yikes

When they throw a monsoon, they throw a monsoon.

amazing amount of water

i thought the most telling comment was that 100s of people are killed by the monsoon every year, even in normal times

Thinking of the drainage problems...

A great deal of Bombay is landfill--and a great deal more is salt marsh.

The poor live at sealevel.

More on the monsoon

My friend who lives in Bombay is pregnant (i think 7 months) and she'd gone to office and was trying to make her way back home thru the floods..She took a bus, which stopped after some distance...people got off but she told them she would stay in the bus for sometime - she didnt want to risk walking in waist-deep water. But then, water started coming in to the bus too...she climbed on op of the bus. People tried to help her but didnt know how. She spent quite some time there before some people from a nearby flat managed to pull her into their balcony with the help of a ladder and a few sturdy men. She stayed in their house for a couple of days and went home after the floods subsided.

Oh, how hard that was for your friend!

Yes it was... but Bombay teaches you how to survive...forget the floods..getting on and off the local train in bombay even on a normal day is no mean achievement..