Heavy downpour for a few hours early morning on Tuesday buried Kochi city under water, inundating even those areas that were unaffected even in the deluge of 2018.
Caught off guard
While the areas notorious for inundation in the very first spell of showers witnessed unprecedented flooding even by their standards, it was the flash floods in areas hitherto unaffected by the flooding in the past that caught the authorities off guard. Much to the relief of authorities, the rain relented and water started receding around 9.30 a.m.
