new delhi gurgaons worst traffic nightmare came true on thursday persistent rains and abysmal civic infrastructure combined to plunge the millennium city into an agonising chaos gridlocked traffic on waterlogged roads led to a massive jam that stretched anywhere between 6 to 16 hours depending on the venue the anger and misery of commuters was reflected in hundreds of tweets even as gurgaonpolice posted traffic status and live periscope videos of the most affected areas in a desperate attempt to restore orderit began with what is now being called a monster jam on thursday night which spilled into the small hours of friday morning several posts from sohna road complained of traffic coming to a complete standstillmy cousin is stuck at sohna road gurgaon gurugram since last five hours in traffic jam wonder what will happen in the days to come wrote someshjha7 stuck in traffic since last 3 hours in sohna road gurgaon wrote thegr8hero monster traffic jam in gurgaon is a reminder that we need basic cities before we need smart cities tweeted samjawed65such tweets continued to flood the social networking site on friday morning one rahuldubey1974 tweeted at close to 9am gurgaon jaipur highway completely jam packedvehicles are stand stillstuck since last 45 minsin the midst of the civic nightmare the recent change of name of the city from gurgaon to gurugram was trashed heavily they learnt from history and change the namehope they wd hv learnt how to manage the drainage system from history itself gurugram wrote cricketmishrasome like iampraveen31 took solace in the fact that the matter was at least trending online i am glad this is going viral and teaching the right people it is an everyday problem we face in gurugram do something pmoindia he wrote others like nipunambastha were less hopeful well well this is usual stuff that happens in gurugram people will forget soon and same will happen next year he tweetedpoliticians and civic agencies earned flak but there were some words of praise for the police only ones working in gurugram is gurgaonpolice working tirelessly helping commoners blame game bw sarkars babus continues meanwhile wrote rrgwritessome like mrambidexter took to sarcasm to vent their frustration with tweets such as gurugram is a nice city world class buildings huge shopping malls giant towers and olympic size swimming pools on the roadwhat politicos tweetedrahul gandhi officeofrg as bjp passes the buck gurgaon chokes wht an awful ordeal 4commuters esp ambulances tht may have been stuck for hrsmilind deora milinddeora what mumbai possibly gurugram urgently require are bipartisan support for directly elected empowered mayorsrandeep s surjewala rssurjewala 16hoursofgurgaonjam blame game mudslinging continues between mlkhattar arvindkejriwal as people sufferwake upaccept responsibility