<p>Images of the deluge of July 2005 seemed to return to people of Mumbai as they waded through waist-deep waters with stranded vehicles and cooking gas cylinders floating in floodwaters amid torrential rainfall over the past few days. </p>.<p>A high tide accompanied by rainfall following a cloudburst had created havoc in India’s commercial capital on July 26, 2005 — the memories of which are came back when Mumbai, spread over 600 sq km, experienced nearly 944.2 mm rainfall in 24 hours.</p>.<p>What Mumbai received was not even one-third of what was reported 16 years ago, but these disruptions are now frequent during the monsoon.</p>.<p>In Vasai-Virar urban conglomeration of Mumbai, which received over 180 mm rainfall, water gushed into the ground floor homes and shops at several places. </p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/west/26-killed-in-rain-related-incidents-in-mumbai-1009942.html" target="_blank">Read | 26 killed in rain-related incidents in Mumbai</a></strong></p>.<p>“We have not caught up with times to upgrade and improve infrastructure in the suburbs of Mumbai…its the same story every year,’ said social activist and Vasai-Virar AAP leader Susheel Dwivedi. </p>.<p>In the Madhuban area salt-pans of Vasai in Palghar district, the civic body undertook a rescue operation through boats. Along the Western Express Highway, people could be seen walking in knee-deep waters. </p>.<p>“I could see hundreds of people walking on the island of the road as the water level rose,” said Q N Khan, a resident of Kandivli suburbs in Mumbai.</p>.<p>"The rainfall this time was on a Sunday and after midnight. This actually reduced the chaos," added AK Joshi, a resident of Badlapur in Thane district.</p>
<p>Images of the deluge of July 2005 seemed to return to people of Mumbai as they waded through waist-deep waters with stranded vehicles and cooking gas cylinders floating in floodwaters amid torrential rainfall over the past few days. </p>.<p>A high tide accompanied by rainfall following a cloudburst had created havoc in India’s commercial capital on July 26, 2005 — the memories of which are came back when Mumbai, spread over 600 sq km, experienced nearly 944.2 mm rainfall in 24 hours.</p>.<p>What Mumbai received was not even one-third of what was reported 16 years ago, but these disruptions are now frequent during the monsoon.</p>.<p>In Vasai-Virar urban conglomeration of Mumbai, which received over 180 mm rainfall, water gushed into the ground floor homes and shops at several places. </p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/west/26-killed-in-rain-related-incidents-in-mumbai-1009942.html" target="_blank">Read | 26 killed in rain-related incidents in Mumbai</a></strong></p>.<p>“We have not caught up with times to upgrade and improve infrastructure in the suburbs of Mumbai…its the same story every year,’ said social activist and Vasai-Virar AAP leader Susheel Dwivedi. </p>.<p>In the Madhuban area salt-pans of Vasai in Palghar district, the civic body undertook a rescue operation through boats. Along the Western Express Highway, people could be seen walking in knee-deep waters. </p>.<p>“I could see hundreds of people walking on the island of the road as the water level rose,” said Q N Khan, a resident of Kandivli suburbs in Mumbai.</p>.<p>"The rainfall this time was on a Sunday and after midnight. This actually reduced the chaos," added AK Joshi, a resident of Badlapur in Thane district.</p>