Srinagar, Aug. 27 -- Families waded through knee-deep water, carrying children and valuables to higher floors or outside their homes.

In several localities, water entered homes, leaving residents helpless. Shopkeepers hastily shifted stock to avoid losses, while local authorities issued alerts urging residents to remain vigilant.

"It feels exactly like 2014," Abdul Rashid, a Rajbagh resident said.

A decade on, Rajbagh inhabitants believe that nothing much was done by the administrations to prevent such tragedies. "The government needs to build proper flood bunds; every year we face this, and yet nothing is done on the ground," Rashid said.

On the Sangam Bridge in south Kashmir, dozens of onlookers gathered, watching the swollen river ...