India, Aug. 8 -- Over 12 hours of torrential rainfall on Friday inundated the Capital, marooned entire neighbourhoods and submerged roads under up to four feet of water, leaving vehicles stranded, choking traffic, and laying bare the sorry state of infrastructure in Delhi that wilted in the face of three consecutive days of monsoon showers.

Safdarjung, the city's base station for weather, recorded its wettest first week of August since 2011, receiving 127 mm of rainfall during the first seven days of the month till 8.30 am on Friday. It received another 77.1 mm through the day, bringing the station's total for August till 8:30 pm on Friday to 204.1 mm, which is 90% of the station's normal figure for the entire month of August.

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