sirens and clouds.

after a long hiatus, the clouds are back.
not recurring were the morning sirens, a sound i dont remember hearing in mumbai before. its strange not to hear what i would normally consider to be a fairly standard city noise. then again, this is not the standard city.
anyway, on a moderately related tangent, the disaster management plan for individual wards of mumbai, and the city whole, can be looked over here.
its an interesting read, defining areas of probable flooding, population situated in land slide zones, water timings, and solid waste disposal networks.
ive only witnessed a fire truck in action once, and have never seen a police vehicle in hot pursuit, except in movies. i honestly dont know how an ambulance would get through the traffic here. all of which makes the term 'disaster' somehow relative.
its a rain boot kind of day.