Pooja's points (after I ask her for an update on the scene in Mumbai)...
- we lost a neighbor - he suffocated in his car while his wife n driver became unconcious
- cousin was stuck under a flyowver all nite
- friends day took 25 hours to reach bandra from ghatkopar
- the deaths in cars....almost 25 known cases
- water entered my friends bunglow right above the bed, furniture was floating
- i saw a dead bosy outside my friend's gate. man must have drowned
- police didnt do a thing for over aday
- electricity was gobe for over a day, still not restored in juhu
- candles that cost 1 buck were selling for 50 rupees
- no drinking water - ppl were selling in black
- linking road had over 10000 cars stranded all through out
- pitch dark - no place to move
- ppl who cud abandoned the cars and left. some died in the cars
- some lived n reached home a day later
- water snakes on the rds
- ppl i know have walked home ading thru water for 10 hrs
- there was chin deep water in juhu and andheri
- a bus was submerged in kalina
- over a 1000 buffaloes have died
- school kids were stranded in buses
- massive trees fallen, poles fallen, roads are broken
- the walls at carter road have holes - i think they must have broken deliberately
- coz the water from the high tide n rain had made the thing like a pool
- ppl were slipping in their houses in the dark cos they cusnt see the water
- pitch blackness for over a day
- i believe even in bandra where g7 is, they used navy boats to rescue ppl
- ppl began mobbing my friend's merc for a ride whey didnt offer, they sat on their bonnets n boots
- car locks and windows got jammed...thats how pl died
- just imagine this man we know, he drowned in his own bldg compound and his body lay there for over a day
- my neighbor cudnt even take his dad's body to delhi for the funeral coz of the flights
- cooper hosp in juhu....the icus are tsill without water
- there was a school kids and drivers body found outside utpal sanghvi...the famous school in juhu
- my masi's ceiling thats below the terrace leaked n she kept slipping in the dark
- her daughet was out with her college friend the entire nite. no ifo abt her. cells were dead, few mtnl lines wrkd
- landslides in andheri at saki naka - over a 100 have died
- lights flickering even now