Bengaluru rain turns roads to rivers & brings traffic at standstill - boats to the rescue. Visuals

Water gushing inside buses, submerged cars, boats on the roads and traffic at a standstill – Bengaluru has been struggling with heavy downpour amid crumbling infrastructure and rescue operations for the last couple of days.

Videos shared on social media show the severity of the situation, especially from low-lying areas such as Yelahanka.

NDRF personnel helped residents of Kendriya Vihar apartments in Yelahanka, once home to former President APJ Abdul Kalam, reach the main gate using boats. Fishing began on the roads, bizarre videos show.

Yelahanka received 157 mm of rain in just six hours from Tuesday midnight to Tuesday 6 am.
Commuters, stuck for hours in traffic, said it was like they were wading through a river at snail’s pace.

YouTuber Ishan Sharma shared his experience wherein it took him 1.5 hours to cover a distance of 11 km. “Technology capital of India. Most ‘advanced’ city. Gets flooded with a couple of days of rain. I wonder where all the tax money is going?” he tweeted sharing pictures of flooded roads.

Another viral tweet shows a car wading through a flooded river.
Another viral video shows water gushing into a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus at Junnasandra junction on Sarjapur Road.
The Manyata Tech Park, again, got inundated with rain water, a video on X shows. The tech park staff had worked out an alternative route to avoid congestion and water pumps were on to curb the waterlogging.
Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka DK Shivakumar, addressing the media, said that even he got caught in the rain and nature cannot be stopped. He also compared the situation to the recent unexpected floods in Dubai.