Well seeing the title of the blog
I do not think I am going to discuss about the rain man problem of physics. As
a student of science I was interested in this particular type of physics
problem. But today it is different.
So Bangalore is drenched with
heavy rain. It has been raining incessantly for last 3 hours. When I started
for home after office, it was raining. I had my umbrella in the bag, felt lucky
for having it as I got a chance to utilize it. But not the same feeling
remained for a long time. Here the physics did not work, angling the umbrella
in the direction of rain. It is useless in heavy rain. Some people still enjoyed
getting wet in the rain, some ran to save themselves. Enjoying the rain,
without an umbrella is good until you do not catch cold or suffer from fever.
When I reached the bus stop I was
half wet, had to take shelter. A bus came and I got inside, the road has turned
into drain. There was water flowing on the road, as the buses and other
vehicles moved, they splashed water on each other. People had taken shelter
under the flyover.
And of course the rain and
traffic are very good friends. When rain comes it brings traffic jam along with
it. On fly over traffic jam….this is one of the horrible things that happen to
people, when all of them try to escape office on a Friday evening, the beginning
of weekend and end up in a bloody traffic jam.
When I reached Silk Board, a
place from where I had to catch another bus towards Marathalli, the roads there
were below one foot of water. I tried to find a way to cross the road and get
into the bus. Unfortunately, either way I had to step into water which spoiled
my shoes. I felt like I was going into a pool of water. Wet shoes, socks and generally
it takes half an hour for me to reach my place, but not today evening. I knew
it. I took off my shoes in the bus and sat shivering in cold.
And in the half way, on Bellandur
flyover there was heavy traffic, vehicles moved slowly. I have very bad
experience with this. It costs me almost an hour. A car had broken down in the
middle of the road. I do not understand why the hell it happens on a rainy day.
The traffic moved very slowly. I could see long lines of vehicles along both
sides of the road. Rain slows down the city.
Some people drive theirs vehicles
in such a way that it splashes muddy water on the pedestrians. As the drainage
systems are not good, there are several pools formed at places, on the road. A
sexy woman in a black dress enjoyed riding her bike getting wet in the rain.
I reached Marathalli after an hour. And it is
muddy hell on a rainy day, Same as an idly in samber. I had to put my steps
vary carefully. At a place I saved myself from falling in to mud. My roommate was stuck near the HAL, there was
water till waist level, bikes could hardly move. He reached at 10 pm, but he
had started from office at 7:30.
The rain-man problem is still to be resolved.
