Have U Ever experienced Wreth/Destruction by Flash Floods and Heavy Rain

India
August 19, 2008 2:52am CST
A few days back there was very Heavy Rain followed for strong winds for 5 hours in the early morning and when I wake up I found the main street outside my house flooded with water. When I went for bath my bath room become full of water say 6" deep in all the bath room. When I went outside to check what the problem is I found that the main sever system was choked and the rain water was entering the low lying house. During these five hours of heavy rain the water entered the houses of entire city and it damages the many house hold items. In some of the markets the water entered the shops and show rooms damaging the material lying in in the shops and showrooms. It took about 4 hours when the storm water channels were cleared and water started receding. At about 11 AM I started for my office and on the way I found trees and telephone Polls lying on roads and there was heavy destruction all around. Later on I learned from the TV news that this one day's heavy rain has caused destruction all around in the city there were losses worth million dollars in our currency. Have you ever experienced such destruction and losses please discuss.
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@alokn99 (5717)
• India
19 Aug 08
I had a horrible experience about a couple of years ago and it was when we experienced one of our worst rainfalls in the historyof our city. One of major lakes in the city breached due to the heavy rainfall. Some goods that we were storing in a warehouse close to this lake got submerged in about 5 feet of water. We needed to get that place to recover whatever we could. It was one of the most difficult experiences that i have gone through. The destruction that this flash floods had done is deeply embedded in my memory. The number of houses submerged, the people struggling, it was extremely sad.