It's a Monday and after just four hours of sleep (again) and a long day at work there wouldn't be anything worth noting if it had not rained. I was in the office and just before noon a real tropical shower (like I know how a real tropical shower looks like) started, and a few minutes later the whole building was without electrical power. Our UPS (not Fedex' competitor) is up, so we all continued working for a while, until it gave up. I look out the window and see how the street turned into a medium size river in less than half an hour. The traffic is uninterrupted and still heavy. Cars and auto-rikshas look like power boats from above. Pedestrians are wading through the water and a couple of kids are holding each other hands and having a blast in the knee high water. Suddenly I realized why sidewalks in Chennai are a foot high.

After rain