It was a city under water. North, south, east or west, there was hardly any thoroughfare, lane or by-lane that was not submerged.
This is what the city dwellers woke up to yesterday, as incessant rain turned the capital into a swamp, paralysing normal life and causing a traffic chaos.
The monsoon rain began in the early hours and continued till afternoon with brief pauses. The Met office recorded 64mm of rainfall in 12 hours from 6:00am yesterday.
City planners say it is the inadequate storm-water drainage system, not the rain, that sank the capital.
At places, human waste and dirt came out of sewers.