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Indian Express: It took all of 24 hours in a single day in July for a cloudburst that spurted 944 mm of rain on Mumbai’s suburbs for the financial capital of India to be brought down to its knees. The deluge and its aftermath – landslides and outbreak of diseases – claimed 698 lives. The casualty list also included 24,000 animal carcasses, 20,000 damaged cars, 2,500 buses and more than 1 lakh houses.
Chennai, 2015: Ten years later, another coastal city, Chennai, is plummeted by incessant rains and the death toll......
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A tale of two cities: similar story of Mumbai & Chennai floods
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 5th, 2015
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