ABSTRACT
On 15 July 2005 a 36-year old woman, an assistant manager of a nationalized bank, pillion riding on her husband’s motor cycle in knee-deep water, while trying to alight, slipped straight into an open manhole and was swept away even before her husband could realise what has happened. Her body was later found at the nearby sewerage treatment plant. The local people were known to have removed the manhole cover to enable the floodwater to flow faster so that their houses were not inundated. The event made for horrifying news as the rainfall was only about 5 cm or so, yet the entire city was affected.
