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Shades of rain

Underground parking turns underwater parking upper floor apartments get wet treatment; fishes glide through streets

Sharier Khan
Following the overnight torrential rain, some city dwellers realised that reality sometimes may really beat their wildest imagination. For instance, when the residents of an apartment building on Green Road woke up in the morning yesterday they could not believe their eyes that their under-ground parking had become an underwater parking.
All of their 17 motor vehicles remained gently parked under 10-12 feet water.
After overcoming the initial shock, they began the rescue operation from noon by using a water pump. But it is unlikely that they would be able to get their cars moving earliest in a week.
A similar shock numbed the tenants of the City Heart Market and Capital Apartments in Naya Paltan on a larger scale. The City Heart Market houses a large basement parking for 62 cars and the Capital Apartments 19 cars.
"We tried hard to stop the water from rushing in," said Asad, a car driver who was waiting in a car in the garage of Capital Apartments. "But at 3:00am we conceded defeat and came out ab andoningthe cars as waterflooded the basement"
The drivers of this apartment complex managed to bringout one car, but that's all they could do.
The situation at the City Heart Market's basement garage is even worse as it is much bigger. Both the garages have now turned into water tanks, with the water level marking at least three feet above the biggest cars.
"We ll begin pumping out the water from tonight (Tuesday). But I don't think we can finish the pumping in two days," said a landlord heaving a sigh.
But this is not all.
Many residents of different upper floor apartments of the city woke up in the morning to barely save themselves from slipping on the floor. In such cases, rain water invariably filled up the rooftops and then started flowing down the staircases in significant volume. making its way into the apartments of unsuspecting residents.
"I woke up at 5:30am to find that my drawing room and study room were inundated by ankle-deep water," said Rehnuma of Uttara sector 5. "The worst part is that water seeped through my main door mattress and wore its dye. The whole water in these rooms is purple. My sofa, cushions and other homely stuffs were partially soaked. Itwasadisas-
ter I never foresaw last night.”
She added, "It took me two hours and three people to clean the mess.”
Some people who typically leave their cars parked in front of their houses in Uttara also were not ready to find that frogs and small fish have made their ways into the engines.
But on the brighter side, lakeside residents in Uttara had the joy of catching fish with their bare hands. It was possible because the water of the lake bloated up inundating the adjacent roads and fish started gliding through the streets alongside motorcars and rickshaws.
"I caught two shol (snakehead) fish from the street after the water receded enough by 10:00am," said Helal, driver by profession.
A gatekeeper caught dozens of telapia fish. "1 will put these in my landlord's refrigerator and eat one daily," smiled Delwar, the gatekeeper.
There was a festive mood on the streets of sectors 3, 5 and 10 of Uttara as kids were seen running here and there to catch fish.
Some fish even became lunch for jolly apartment owners. "I had a nice lunch with a fresh shol fish bhuna," said Rokeya Begum smilingly.