The first picture shows concrete blocks which form one of the boundary walls, simply washed away.

The second picture shows some of the water whih is left over which has not drained away yet.

In the third picture, there should be a six foot high stone wall right across the top of the round white pipes and it has simply been washed away.

And in the last picture there should be a six foot high stone wall right across in front of the sikh gentlement from left to right - again, all just washed away.

I understand that trees were all over the place; roots torn from the ground and branches torn from the trees. But by the time I was able to go outside with my camera a great deal of tidying up had already been done. Particularly the removal of trees from roads. Everything must be done to get services, including roads, back to normal as soon as possible.

In fact, internet an e-mail is back to normal already in most the houses and apartments. Perhaps because we have local servers. Offices are not so lucky as the main servers for here are located in Mombai and they are also pretty much under water still.

People like us survive these situations without too much trouble or inconvenience. But not everyone is so lucky. There are many, many people all over India who live in shanty towns in urban and rural areas. There home is barely more than poles or bits of stone wall or whatever, covered with tarpaulins to make roofs. How these people manage with these types of weather conditions is almost unbearable to contemplate.

Gavin's driver has a small single storey home with stone walls for himself, his wife and two small children, his mother and his much younger brother. The corrugated iron roof blew off on Monday and they were up to their knees in water. They now have a tarpaulin roof. But because a job is so important, he reported to work by lunch time on Tuesday.

There are stories like this and worse all over the place. But the resilience of these people is amazing. They just seem to accept the situation and get on with it.

What a day Monday was!!

It seemed dark in the apartment all day. This was really odd and somewhat spooky. Particularly at this time of the year when, in Scotland, we are used to it being light from the early hours of the morning until very late at night.

Torrential (and I do mean torrential!!) rain, huge, huge, huge claps of thunder and lightening streaking all over the place from about eight in the morning until about five in the afternoon. I have never seen anything like it - but have no doubt there are others who have - but I am certainly not one of them!

I have since read that in a normal monsoon in this part of the country there would be an expected rainfall of approximately 175 mm of water. On Monday, I understand, approximately 340 mm fell during the ONE DAY!!!

I battled to keep some of the windows from blowing open; mopped up when some water came inside; listened to the overwhelming sounds of nature and watched from my first floor window. By lunch time all the Reliance and Bechtel offices were abandoned - no electricity, no land line or mobile phone services, no computers, water sloshing about the floors. I understand that for some people the journey back to Jamnagar (which normally takes about forty-five minutes) took up to six hours.