The Flood
It's Noah all over again
The rain continued on for the night. And for the next day. And for the next week. And for the next months. The light rain turned into a shower, then into a storm. At first, people blamed the meteorologists. Of course, they are the first ones to blame for the whims of the weather. But it soon became clear that something was wrong. Obvious when the city's drain systems were saturated and water began to pour on the streets.
Early victims
The first to be hit were paradoxically both the poorer and richer. The first lived close to the ground, sometimes on the streets or inside basements. They were the first to be displaced. The lucky ones moved higher, finding refuge in uninhabited flats or exposed roofs. The others tried their chances floating on the water or hiding in the hermetically closed subway, with varying degrees of success.
As for the ones who never traveled by anything but their car or private drivers, they suddenly became stranded high in their ivory towers, or forced to mingle with the people they despised so much, using the underground.
Insubmersible subway
The underground subway is the only structure below the ground to resist the flood. All access at street levels have been walled and the interior structure reinforced to sustain the constantly increasing pressure.
Thanks to direct access in multiple buildings including residential ones, it connects a lot of places and the subway is still running, at least some lines. A new form of society has appeared in the passages, planting tents on platforms, selling artificially-grown fruits and vegetables next to a dead vending machine, sometimes even in the tunnels of shut-down lines.
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