From the dashboard of MM - How's your morning commute

I snapped a quick video this morning of my drive to work. We had a huge thunderstorm this morning which started around 4 am.

I woke up to a text message from my neighbour suggesting we message our gardener and tell him to stay home today, as getting across town in the rain is a nightmare. Also the the prospect of rain most of the day, there wouldn't be a lot he could do.

I pulled back the curtains in my bedroom to find that some good sized branches from the neem trees in my backyard had been knocked down. Thankful it wasn't another tree falling like last year, but I was a bit concerned about how they fell. They landed just next to the house and right beside the pots which I sowed my herb seeds in yesterday.

With this kind of rain, we all anticipate the worst on the roads. The already sketchy adherence to traffic rules goes completely out the window as it becomes each driver for herself.

Without further ado, this morning's traffic clusterfuck for your viewing pleasure. My apologies to those sensitive to the title, but there really is no other word to describe it.



And for another little snapshot of morning-rain induced traffic delights, this quick video is of a rapidly growing puddle on the main artery coming in to the city centre from the north. I'd never seen it accumulate to both lanes of traffic.