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Wed, 08 Aug 2007
Serendipity
Day before yesterday, I came across an ad for the book "A World
Without Us", where the author tries to imagine how nature would manage
if we weren't around. Sounds fairly interesting. One claim the book
seems to make is that within 2 days of humanity's disappearance, the
New York subway system will be flooded and unusable. Surely, I
thought, he doth protest too much.
Interestingly, the New York subway seems to have been shut down by 3 inches of rain (though it come down fairly quickly). In the 2005 Mumbai mega-pour, the city got 37 inches in a single day. No wonder it flooded. People often complain about India's infrastructure, and rightly so. But some of the nature-related challenges in India (heat, monsoon, dust etc.) are quite difficult to deal with.