37 inches of rain in a day...that's crazy !!!!

What a day for Mumbai......it rained 37 inches in 21 hours.....that is the highest recorded rainfall in day for over a century in India. It even beat the previous record at Cherapunji, Assam. The rains have totally crippled the city rendering thousands stranded all over. It must be total chaos over there...no electricity (as power had been shut off), no communications. I remember when I was back home it had rained about 20 inches in a day..........and it was a mess. I can only imagine what it must be like now. Reports say that some places are under 12 feet of water...that’s entire ground floor...Reports from my neighborhood are surprisingly ok (considering the situation everywhere else)..the road link was cut because of waist high flooding, but there was no loss of life. Water did enter the ground floor apartments though.
One of my friends coming to US had to turn back (as did thousands of other traveller's) as all flights were cancelled. So were the trains and the roads were blocked too...the city was completely cut-off from the rest of the country....
well that's monsoon back home.....I am just hoping that life returns to normalcy as soon as possible.