Rain, rain go away...no seriously, just go away!
Well she's back; fiercer than ever this time. It seems like the monsoon is pissed and she's got a bone to pick with Karachi.
It was a pleasant day yesterday. It was overcast enough wear your sunglasses on your head. Everyone at work was thinking of picnics and getting home. Then the news started pouring in (no, pun intended!). Initially there was some relief when the met office began predicting rain (they are almost always predicting the exact opposite of what will happen), but then it seemed their horse was going to cut the finish line after all. (Lets take a moment to congratulate them on their first correct prediction. Hurray for the Met office!)
I was holding my breath till late at night when there was not a drop of rain in sight (unless you lived in the Defence/Clifton area where DHA was still hoarding the rain water from a ten day old rain spell), but at around 5.00am in the morning, the rain came down.
The PECHS area had little or no electricity problems and ditto for the Nursery/Block 6, New and North Karachi and the Gulshan/Nazimabad areas. The same cannot be said about the 'better' *nyuck*nyuck* areas of Karachi, i.e. Defence and Clifton.
This is one of those weird and crazy moments when you can thank god you're struggling middle class in a crazy 3rd world country.
I would like to thank Mr. Mustafa Kamal (thats the city Nazim for you DAWN readers) for keeping his word and taking care of the better half of the city. *wink*wink*
Here area shot of the CDGK working.
What they are doing is cutting through the island to relieve the water stuck on one side of the road to the other. Not the smartest thing to do, but I'm sure motorcyclists will thank them for months to come.
Here's a before and after shot. This picture was taken at around 10.30am.
And this one was taken at 11.10am.
