all those things that never change…
City of Calcutta
has received around 20% of an entire season’s
monsoon rain that it normally gets in over just the last three days.
“Calcutta gets 1600 to 1700mm of rain every monsoon but the city has received more than 300mm of rain since late on Monday night”
the city weather office said.
The hand-pulled rickshaws were ferrying stranded residents.
Very few trains ran, few taxis and buses on the roads.
Barren market stalls and no shops are open.
Attendance in offices were low,
colleges have been shut
and no schools… 😀
“No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks”
The weather office predicts more rain until Friday.
More rain,
more flooding,
few buses, hand pulled rickshaws,
people wading through knee deep water,
no, no, no, this photo is from over fifty years ago,
it is just to show, a few things in life, never changes.
[Elliot Road: in Monsoon Calcutta ≈ 1950,
Photograph by Bernard Ellis, Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press]
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Bendtherulz said this on July 6th, 2007 at 14:51
No schools ehan…:-) , I can imagine it must have been some happy times for you to skip …gawd…we grew up in place where there was no rain….
However all this rains have their side effects too….which I feel would not be too much way back in 50’s….
tk cr ~
little indian said this on July 6th, 2007 at 17:59
thanks bendtherulz
when young, I was always petrified of having to wade through knee deep water.
BTW,
the photo is from the 50s.
Ancient as I may seem, 🙂
it was from before my time.