Winds came at Formula One speed on Thursday evening, leaving the road from the Gateway of India to the Radio Club promenade at Colaba chock-a-block, with tourists and some locals leaning over the parapet and shrieking as the waves drenched them.

Three e-toilets or bio toilets installed at the seafront by Lions Club in September 2018 were not having such a good time though. They stood valiantly against the wind, lashed by waves only a little lower than a lamppost next to them. But, the three unisex stalls were closed. An attendant's chair between two of them was unoccupied.