Harish Palaniappan's

What the rains made Chennai into.

Fallen Tree

At the 'Chennai Central' railway station

This is a road here.. will be able to see it again in 3-4 days, .. somebody is excited and swimming

Water from a subway pumped away... looks like someone took to opportunity to clean up his bicycle. If i had known this earlier, i would have taken my bike.

The Chennai city corporation building.. called 'Ripon building'.. some lord ripon built it. photographer probably had a bad angle on this one, makes it look like ripon building had a very dirty swimming pool.

Still wondering, thats a ford ikon. yes, we sometimes use these in such water too...you would have heard of all-terrain vehicles.. here its a submerged-terrain vehicle

Happy holidays!!.. thats what a small girl studying in this classroom in a school would say if she sees mess.

Chennaites think strange occassions for group photos.. smileee.

Thats our chennais public transport.. an MTC bus with its headlights lighting up underwater. do you see the traffic cop by the side with a stick.. we still check rules. these MTC bus drivers even overtake on such roads filled with water. Our MTC is one over-skilled department.

No, not a power station. 2-3 days and you will see rail tracks here.. well submerged with no trace of anything like a railway system.

I wonder.. whether this is another photo occassion.. i can hardly believe so.. anyway that's a fallen tree cut out from blocking the road.

With all this, it would be apt to call it 'floods' rather than 'rains'. But we chennaites are grown here with such tolerance levels that even I am unable to type floods anywhere thinking that would be exaggeration.

Except that it allowed many office goers to stay back home, all schools to declare a few days of last week as holidays, businesses unable to find customers even if some opened amidst odds, people had to walk into knee deep or some times neck deep water to reach their offices, few car drivers trying under-water driving and ending up stranded, airports and trains suspending or cancelling some services on days leaving passengers in the no-where, and a few or many more issues, .. life seemed to be normal.. or the people triumphed all the odds and made it normal.