Nearly 100 industrial units in Industrial Area, Phase II became nonoperational as the roof of a substation building caved in this morning. Since the sub-station is not manned by anybody, nobody was injured. However, the transformers and other material was badly damaged.Officials of the Engineering Department admitted that power supply to the "about 50 adjacent industrial sheds" had been affected. Superintending Engineer V. P. Dhingra, when contacted, said the transformer was safe. "It will take us two-three days for restoring power supply to the sheds," he added.

Secretary of Federation of Small Scale Industries, Rajeev Gupta, pointed out that the substation had been in a bad shape since 1996, but the Administration paid no heed to it.About 100 hutments in Colony number 5 and a couple of shanties in Colony number 4 were washed away by the heavy rainfall. While no loss of life was reported, property worth lakhs of rupees was destroyed. According to area's municipal councillor Bachhan Singh: "All these were illegal jhuggis built on a danger belt as sewerage water flows through the area. In all, about 125 hutments were washed away." Rain crippled normal, life particularly during the first half of the day.

Several areas, especially the low-lying ones, were flooded with water. Many commuters were left stranded on roads with their vehicles refusing to budge. According to the local meteorological department, the City experienced 106.1 mm rain up to 8.30 am while till 5.30 in the evening, an additional 29 mm rainfall was recorded, making it by far the season's highestrainfall recorded in a day. The season's previous highest was 87 mm rainfall recorded on June 28.

Weatherman have predicted one or two spells of rain or thundershowers during the next 24 hours.

The downpour began in the early hours and continued till around noon. Several places across the City had knee-deep water, close to the round abouts. In fact, water-logging could be seen right till evening in some southern sectors.In Sector 45-C, a big ravine has developed right on the road making it accident-prone, said Jaspreet of the same sector.

Certain shopkeepers from Sector 46 complained that water had seeped in certain showrooms in the market this morning. Attendance in educational institutions, in particular, and offices was badly affected, with many employees and students in particular deciding not to risk getting drenched. Umbrellas and raincoats didn't give much protection. Streams of water reigned in the movement to a great extent in various colonies and villages of the Union Territory which perhaps were the worst affected.