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title: Waves at Marine Drive
date: "2001-06-17T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - mumbai
wp_id: 1786
description: During a torrential Mumbai rain, I witnessed massive waves crashing over the Marine Drive wall and splashing my taxi. I also lost my umbrella to the intense wind while delivering documents to Malabar Hill.
keywords: [mumbai, marine drive, monsoon, malabar hill, arabian sea]
---

This morning, for the first time, I saw what the waves crash over the rocks on **Marine Drive**. I did see some spray on Friday as we were walking along Marine Drive, but nothing like this. It was raining, and torrentially. The previous evening, my umbrella broke. I was walking out of office, which is directly in front of the sea. The breeze blows towards office. There's no way for the wind to go except through the door. So when I walked out of the door and opened my umbrella, the breeze inverted it, and broke a couple of the rods. It's still usable, but won't stand another strong wind.

Anyway, we'd been working late last night, and I had to deliver some documents to a partner who lived at Malabar Hill. I took a taxi and sat at the front, as he drove along Marine drive to Malabar hill. It was raining, when waves crashed over the wall along the sea, and splashed all over the road, including the car, with tremendous force. I jerked backwards, but the driver hardly noticed anything, pausing only to adjust the speed of the wiper.They're used to it, I guess.