Bengaluru is famous for its relatively-mild weather. Well, at least for most of the year anyway. Sometimes, though, the city’s infrastructure can turn on its own people – case in point, the recent Manyata Tech Park flooding.
It has been an eventful week for the Karnataka metropolis, which spawned several trending keyword searchers, such as “Bengaluru rains” and “Bangalore weather”.
The city continues to take the onslaught of heavy rain, which persisted to cause severe waterlogging from Monday through Wednesday.
People documented the disruption on social media, posting memes to make sure the Bengaluru administration never lives it down, let alone don’t evade accountability.
This deluge included photos and videos from all eight Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) zones: East, West, North, South Bommanahalli, Dasarahalli, Mahadevpura and Rajarajeshwari Negara.
Amid so many stories, it’s easy to lose track of what’s going on. Here are some of the trending posts that, by and large, sum up all that went down.
Perhaps one of the telling sights from the recent rain-caused havoc is what has been dubbed the “Manyata Tech Park waterfalls”. A video shows water cascading down the walls into a construction site on the premises. It followed reports of IT employees getting stranded with the 300-acre campus, where cars were seen ploughing through knee-deep water.
Visuals of traffic jams, including one with no end or beginning in view, painted a horrifying picture of the situation. This particular clip shows an aerial view of the Airport Flyover near Hebbal.
Many commercial and infrastructural projects in Bengaluru are built on lakebeds. Unsurprisingly, the water has nowhere else to go. So when it rains, it pours.
Environmentalists have long warned against urbanising such ecosystems, but successive state and central governments have seemingly failed to take heed.
A handful of lakes, however, were also restored. Here's one.
The rain-affected India vs New Zealand Test at Chinnaswamy Stadium also found itself in the thick of Bengaluru weather coverage.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for the city.