A man wearing rubber boots walks straight through a 10 cm deep flood of rainwater which has taken over a whole intersection. Sidewalks
on the left hand side of the street are completely flooded over. Cars are waiting on the right side, driving straight through the
water.
Bad drainage of the streets, and non-absorbant soil are obvious culprits in this situation. The water that has collected here would not be
considered a ârealâ flood as it occurs almost every time it rains. For those pedestrians prepared for the situation (as this man was) mobility
just takes longer, and is messier than regular, but for those unprepared pedestrians, it means waiting until the flood has subsided,
maneuvring over small islands of land, or risking illness and going straight through. For cars it means a complete traffic jam.