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The 2005 rainy season will be memorable for Pune and Mumbai for torrential rains that caused flash floods, rumors , panic there-of and all sorts of un-imaginable inconveinence.
The Pune city and suburbs, through whom run the Mula-Mutha and the Pavana rivers, reportedly faced the heaviest rainfall in a hundred years, causing water from dams on these rivers to be released, hence affecting those residing on their banks.
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Civic life became too hot to handle, while there was water everywhere on the two days (July 26, 2005 and August 2, 05) in Pune.
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©2005 Ganesh Iyer
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The river parked itself in some residential complexes ...
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©2005 Ganesh Iyer
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... enjoyed their re-creation areas, ...
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©2005 Santosh Gopinathan
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... and even taught a few unlikely entities to swim !, ...
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©2005 Santosh Gopinathan
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... while it raged in its channel, ...
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©2005 Salil Gokhale
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... tried to drown trees and electricity poles, ...
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©2005 Salil Gokhale
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... held bridges by the scruff of their necks, ...
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©2005 Salil Gokhale
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... held civic life to ransom, ...
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©2005 Salil Gokhale
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... and generally had a rollicking time in all kinds of low lying areas.
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©2005 Ganesh Iyer
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Lacking good infrastructure and good disaster recovery mechanisms, all Pune could do, was to welcome it. Though MKVDC officials, reportedly, did save Pune from even more massive floods.
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©2005 Salil Gokhale
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Finally, having battled the river, some people even sought out beauty.
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©2005 Salil Gokhale
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Before and After
These before and after photos by Vijay Kurup clearly bring out the contrasts that the floods created, in the life of Punekars.
©2005 Vijay Kurup
©2005 Vijay Kurup
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Message in Public Interest
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