Every year, with the start of the monsoon season, apprehension grips Karachi’s residents. Even though rains symbolize life and the blooming of flowers, the locals view them differently. The 2020 monsoon season saw the city flooded with rainwater, leaving people stranded at work, or stuck at home or in traffic jams, with the streets and roads hardly visible. The financial artery of the metropolis looked like Venice, with water swooping in from all directions. Samra, a banker by profession was stranded on the busy road termed as the ‘Wall Street of Pakistan’, I.I Chundrigarh road for hours, cars were ineffective as the water flooded the lower flowers and the water level continued to rise as the deluge continued, having left with no other option, she had to go on a truck praying all the time that she would reach home safely.…