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It was like 26/7 all over again for Mumbai on Tuesday, as Mumbai drowned under nearly 300 mm of rainfall -- the worst downpour since the 2005 deluge. While the BMC is patting itself on the back for better disaster management this time around, the fact is, things could have been a lot worse. The rainfall on August 29 was merely one-third of what Mumbai had received on July 26, 2005, so why was the flooding just as bad this year?