chief minister mamata banerjee who is in germany now called urban development minister firhad hakim asking him to take measures to deal with the situation the city received around 110mm of rain during the day the bulk of it during the evening according to the rmc in south behala rashbehari avenue harish mukherjee road and camac street were the worst affected but the weather remained dry since morning with no sign of showers water from the ganges gushed into the adjoining strand road the system is a large one that covers the whole of gangetic bengal while the deluge had been predicted it still managed to catch the city unawares our drainage system is not equipped to absorb even half the volume of rain we had today said tarak singh mmic in charge of drainage lowpressure has mo ved very little and continues to hover above south bengal it took long for the water to subside it will continue to trigger showers till the system moves far enough which could be tues day afternoon said das it touched 110mm by 7pm said the kolkata municipal corporation waiting time at traffic signals along chittaranjan avenue was as long as 45 minutes during the rain so it will trigger more rain in kolkata and the adjoining districts till at least tuesday afternoon said g k das director regional meteorological centre rmc making matters worse a high tide struck at the ganges which swelled the waterlevel to 597 metres just as kolkatans started believing that the lowpressure had wafted away the sky turned grey it intensified over the last 24 hours and caused the rain life came to a standstill across the city as heavy showers triggered by a lowpressure above north bay of bengal lashed kolkata for more than three hours on monday evening it led to a spell of heavy shower on sunday evening and the met office forecast heavy rain on monday as well it remained under two feet water till late evening prompting the police to divert howrahbound traffic along the vidhyasagar setu the lowpressure had been looming over kolkata and south bengal since saturday with vehicular movement coming to a near pause along the approach to the howrah bridge the city was cutoff from howrah thousands particularly those returning home from office found themselves stranded at various points in and around the central business district that witnessed an unprecedented clogging a spell of intense shower followed sinking the city rapidly the the city received 651mm of rain between 830am and 530pm kolkata sources said rainwater entered her kalighat residence during the high tide too traffic movement came to a halt at these places for more than two hours the met office has predicted more rain till tuesday afternoon traffic screeched to a virtual halt in north and central kolkata while streets were left submerged the citys suffering could last till at least tuesday afternoon it was enough to drown the city since the