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.