7 June:The south-west monsoons hit the Mumbai city ahead of schedule on Saturday bringing copious rains and disrupting normal life with water logging across the city, disrupting road traffic and throwing suburban rail service out of gear.
The city’s Meteorological Department recorded 152 mm of rainfall at its Colaba station in North West Mumbai and 198.3 mm at its Santacruz station between 8:30 AM on Friday and 2:30 PM on Saturday.
Office goers had a tough time negotiating their way to work and back with many roads choked and suburban trains delayed due to waterlogging of tracks.
The suburban train system, which forms the backbone of the city’s transport network, was affected with services on Western and Central Railways delayed.
While trains on the Western Railways were operating with a delay of about 15 minutes, services on Central Railways were shut for nearly an hour due to water logging at stations like Masjid and Matunga.
Air services were delayed between five minutes to half-an-hour since Saturday morning, a Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) spokesperson said.
Two flights, both operated by Kingfisher Airlines, coming to the city from Kolkata and Delhi had to be diverted late on Friday night because of heavy rains, the spokesperson said.
The rains also claimed a life, with a man being dying in the North West suburb of Andheri after a wall collapsed on him in the wee hours on Saturday.The city’s civic body said waterlogging was recorded at 43 locations in the city, including the western and eastern suburbs.Courtsey : DD NEWS