How I got through Chennai’s heaviest rainfall since 2015 | First-person account

On Sunday, Chennai received the heaviest rainfall it has had in six years. In ten hours, the city recorded about 14 cm of rain. Here's my personal account of living through a day that brought back memories of the city's 2015 floods.

I fell asleep last night to the roar of thunder and woke up this morning to find that my city had gone under. Outside my window, I could see the impact of the nightlong showers -- there was water everywhere.

The water had reached the entrance of our house in West Mambalam, jolting me back to memories of that traumatic period in 2015 when the floods in Chennai resulted in us wading through three-feet-high water within our home. It is not yet as bad as that, but with the rains still not having abated, I cannot help but fear what is to come over the next few days.