While many were left stranded on roads, in offices and at train stations in the heavy rain that lashed the city on Tuesday morning, water-logging on the roads in Vasai led to a funeral being obstructed. Relatives of the deceased, Nirmel Bahl, were forced to pull the deceased on a handcart in knee-deep water for around a kilometre.

Sanjay Bahl, residing in Sattyam Shivam Sundaram society in Vasai West was heading to the nearby crematorium for his mother's funeral but the heavy rain made the family's journey tougher. Bahl, 54, resides with his father, wife and two daughters.