Jam-ming: Caught, smiling in Delhi rain

Heavy showers on Wednesday morning inundated vast swathes of the national capital region. Delhi received 65.7mm rainfall in the morning, leading to traffic jams and harassed commuters. A school girl sees the bright side of wading through a flooded road near Turkman Gate in New Delhi. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

Updated on: Aug 31, 2016 1:47 PM IST

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Heavy showers on Wednesday morning inundated vast swathes of the national capital region. Delhi received 65.7mm rainfall in the morning, leading to traffic jams and harassed commuters. A school girl sees the bright side of wading through a flooded road near Turkman Gate in New Delhi. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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School was probably called off ; that’s why these students are smiling as they wade a flooded road in Delhi. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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The downpour, coupled with strong winds and lightning for more than four hours in the morning, flooded roads across Delhi with hundreds of people stranded at bus stops and Metro stations. A couple in Turkman Gate pushes their bike after being caught in the rain. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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The weather department says 53 mm of rain was recorded in Delhi-NCR in just two hours. The “unusual” amount of rains caught this group of school students off guard. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

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New Delhi, India - Aug. 21, 2016: Water logging after monsoon rain near Turkman Gate in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (Photo by Arun Sharma/ Hindustan Times) (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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Many roads in Delhi were flooded in the rain. Visiting US diplomat John Kerry quipped, ‘did people need boats’ in Delhi. These school girls at Turkman Gate may have asked the same (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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This group of school students made the most of walking through a flooded road in central Delhi. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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Office-goers had an especially tough time with packed buses, almost no autos on the road and peaking cab fares. No, that’s not a river but a flooded road in Patel Nagar, central Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

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Heavy rainfall flooded Patel Nagar and even taking shelter under a flyover was no help. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

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Jangpura and Barapullah Junction in Delhi clogged up in the rain. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Near Turkman Gate in New Delhi, people didn’t let the rain stop their daily lives. (Arun Sharma/HT PHOTO)

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Vehicles plod through water-logged Sardar Patel Marg, which is a major road in New Delhi) (Gurinder Osan/HT PHOTO)

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Perhaps this trip to school will make a pleasant memory for this girl. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)