Mumbai Rains!!! - 2

Know what, its 3:00PM now and I'm still at home. No, I'm not on leave. Its a holiday for us. TCS has declared today as a holiday for all its Mumbai Associates (non-critical resources, of course). And the reason for doing this is the warning from BMC regarding the possible heavy rains, high tides and floods. Though there was very little rain, Mumbaikars were able to witness heavy tides that were up to 5.5 m high. It is said that those are the biggest tidal waves that ever hit the Konkan coasts in the last 100 years. But why I dont know, as usual this time also the Met Dept prediction proved to be wrong. Compared with the previous days of the week, Mumbai today witnessed very less rain. May be its too difficult to predict when and how rain Gods will be pleased. I remember reading about this in Micheal Crichton's famous novel "Jurassic Park". A mathematician in that novel always refers to "The Chaos Theory" and according to him, that theory explains why humans were not able to and not going to predict the whether. Dont ask me the reasons, because the novel was a Sci Fi thriller and most of the things were out of my intellectual threshold. :) Anyways before reaching Mumbai I thought only in Kerala they made these false predictions about rain. You might've heard about the famous weather forecast : "There may or may not be rain for the next two days". :) But now that it happens in Mumbai also, may be the reason behind this may be as I mentioned before, the complexity in performing the analysis. God knows.

Actually I was planning to say something else. People were blessed to witness two very rare natural phenomenon in this week. One was the total solar eclipse that happened a couple of days before. Nat Geo has given out pictures taken from the outer space with the Moon's shadow casting over part of the earth. Have a look at the image. They have taken it before and during eclipse. You can also see the Australian continent in this image.



And the second thing is regarding the tidal waves. They are said unique because in the last 100 years, as per records, the tidal waves were smaller than these. Mumbai sea side had a lot of amused spectators to watch this phenomenon.



Courtsey for Images : news.nationalgeographic.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Mumbai Rains!!!

Its raining heavily in Mumbai. Yesterday, my formal shoe almost drowned. Its still recovering. The entrance to my flat will be flooded if it rains tonight. In that case, wow, I wont go to office tomorrow. In the news they are telling Mithi river has swelled beyond the danger level. And every second person you meet in the streets is talking about nothing other than "Chabbees July" (26/Jul/2005). When will the floods come???
And the worst of all is that my new rain coat is leaking. But nothing can be done, coz its leaking from the neck.

First Time in the Last Train

Its 00:30 Indian Railway time, and I'm in Thane railway station. Dinner at Leopold was awesome if it had been without Prawns Fried Rice and Fish Fry. After all, people like me drink for two reasons. One, to go off, which I don't know why, is not happening. And the other is to eat MORE food. Alas, both didn't happen @ Leopold. And the food was making its presence felt in my stomach.
Its 00:40 and here comes the last local to CST. Its from Badlapur and is almost empty. Last time I saw a local train this much empty was a couple of weeks before at around 23:30 when it was raining like hell in Thane. Had a nice comfortable trip @ the door in the last train, my first trip in the last train. @ Ghatkopar station on sharp 01:00. What punctuality man. I love Mumbai Local Trains.