Memories of rainy days in the past invaded in full force the minds of the Karachi population as the city was lashed for two consecutive days with the first day breaking several records and confronting Karachiites with a kind of severe weather they had not faced for several years.

For all intents and purposes it was an ordinary day with the kind of weather prediction that abounds throughout the year but hardly ever materializing.

Well this day it did materialize and that too with a bang. Light rain that started in the afternoon turned to a down pour by early evening and continued till late at night. It was not just constant rain but it’s intensity that caught the populace by surprise.

At the peak of the rainfall it was unfortunately also the peak time that the household bread earners return home from work. While most of the roads at that time are full to capacity it is the Shahra-e-Faisal, which usually bears the brunt of this sea of transport that includes cars, motorcycles, trucks, rickshaws and other vehicles.

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