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I've been following the news on rain lashing out in Chennai and Bangalore. Granted that such rain is out of ordinary, especially in Chennai, but I cannot help wonder how the civic facilities could fail everytime. I can understand the areas low lying getting flooded. But the whole city including the roads in front of corporation building, almost all subways and most roads become a huge well for the days to come. What could be the problem for this happening with almost every rain? Do the drains not work or there are just absent? Let us assume that the corporation knows that it does not work well and they do not have money or the mind to fix it. But combined with the information from metereological department, they could test this prior to such rains or even when the rain starts. But no one seems to care.

Also, I wanted to write about the underway or subway's built under the railway bridges. Every one of them goes under water during the rains. So, why build a subway at all? It makes good sense to built roads that go over the tracks as they always stay dry during the rains. May be the water drains to the roads, but atleast it does not present danger as the subways do. Is it cost that makes the subways more attractive? I am no architect, but I cannot understand the reason for building these sure-to-be-wells when it rains.

And x Chennai mayor also complains...