FLASH FLOODS IN NAIROBI

   

 Flash floods that hit Nairobi city Tuesday night left a trail of damage with most city roads remaining impassable the following day, motorists were forced to spend hours on the road as the County government workers tried to clear and unblock the city drainage system.Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists scrambled their way out of flooded roads in Nairobi after heavy downpour that caused havoc in the wee hours of the Tuesday morning . Motorists using Mbagathi were shocked after flash floods swept away bridge metal rails  blocking motorists.Some people were held in traffic the night till morning ,I being one of them reached home at around 4:30 am .I’ve never been that exhausted ,I had to wake up the at 7a.m for me to make to the city centre.

Debate on ‘roundabouts’ and Nairobi traffic hit fever pitch sometime last month as was clearly demonstrated on the Twitter trending topic ‘#someonetellKidero’. Now it’s the floods, and I guess it’s time we evaluated the mess that Nairobi City County has become.First, our drainage is from 1954 when horse carriages were the main form of transport on city roads. That’s why three days of rain is enough to cause a complete gridlock in the city.Hope this issue will be addressed because Tuesday the 12’th /13’th was a pure disaster.