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Mumbai Rains | Driving 26 km in 180 minutes | Observations

2017-Aug-29 When I stepped out in the morning it was raining and I had anticipated it to be a wet day. When you halt at a signal for 3 turns of green you know that the path ahead is going to be dense with traffic. But then if you have been driving in Mumbai for a while you expect this because some driver wanted to go faster than all others and caused some other driver to do something which turns into a pile of vehicles putting up a show for the rest of the drivers passing by watch. Generally drivers are not hurt, just the cars and the insurance takes care of it! I was lazily clicking pictures to while away the time at the signals and things did not look all that bad. Knowing how difficult it is to predict the weather, specifically in India because of the sparse number of weather stations; one had the tendency to look at the IMD predictions with your own multiplication factor which is closer to 0 than to 1! Takes me a little more than my usual time to reach my work ...