Heavy rain coupled with high tide at 3.30 pm once again sent the city under on Wednesday, with scenes reminiscent of 26/7 seen across Mumbai. Trains were halted, roads blocked or severely waterlogged and people were stuck at stations and roadsides trying to get home. Civic officials said the Mithi River levels rose to the highest recorded ever — 4.2 metres — around 1 pm on Wednesday and possibly higher than the figures recorded in the last few years.

Civic officials from L ward along with the police, Navy and the National Disaster Response Force evacuated more than 1,300 people living around river banks. After the water level crossed 3.6 metres, civic officials started evacuating the residents of Kranti Nagar and Bamandaya Pada in Marol around 11 pm.