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.