Shortly after our arrival in Lucknow in September 2012 heavy
late monsoon rains hit and our street, Wazir Hassan Road, was flooded for several days.
Therefore when we heard about a rare February rainstorm headed our way (which
ended up being the heaviest rains in Delhi in 71 years) we knew that we
could probably expect flooding to follow. Sure enough when I woke up on Tuesday morning
Wazir Hassan Road was completely under water. I wasn’t having it: instead of going to class I went
straight back to bed. One might be tempted to say, “oh that’s nothing, you can
just wade through that!” Indeed many people do (mostly because they have no
other choice). People wade through it (seemingly) without the thoughts of open
sewers and piles of garbage that keep me inside during storms like the one we
were faced with this past week. In
my time in India I’ve adopted a “just go with it” attitude about many things,
but I’m still working on it other areas. See for yourself:
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