INDORE: Indore, said to be the commercial capital of central India, came to a standstill after being swamped by the heaviest September rainfall in its recorded history - 10 inches of rain in 24 hours.
Met records say the record prior to this was 6.8 inches of rain in 1962.Houses, roads, buses went under water.
Hospitals were flooded.
Miraculously, only one death was reported - a testament to the bravery of rescuers and ordinary Indoreans who toiled all night to save at least 200 lives, including an 8-day-old boy, four toddlers and a pregnant woman who was carried to safety on a chair.
The way it's raining, rescuers stare at another sleepless night.Indore is often compared with Mumbai.
In the last 24 hours, the Swachh city has shown it can match the resilience of the Maximum City.The downpour began around 4.30pm on Friday, and steadily intensified all night.
Indoreans woke up to water in their homes, flooded roads and pounding rain.
Residents could only watch as vehicles got swept away.As roads turned into rivers, Indore fought to stay afloat.
Personnel from the district administration, Indore Municipal Corporation and SDERF worked all night, wading in chest-deep water to plug threats, rescue people and pumping water out of hospitals.
Thousands were evacuated from flooded slums.
The administration arranged for 54,000 food packets for those displaced.
Sadly, an elderly woman lost her life after she was swept away by an overflowing rivulet in Mhow.
A minibus, on its way back from Ujjain with around 15 devotees, stalled in the floodwaters on MR 10 service road in Banganga around 5am.
Police, locals and SDERF personnel teamed up to rescue all of them.
Collector Ilayaraja T asked people not to drive on flooded bridges, warning of punitive action.
"Life is precious.
Be aware, vigilant and secure," Ilayaraja said in his social media message to Indoreans.
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