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Techies ride tractors to reach offices amid heavy rains in 'Bengaluru turned Venice'; Twitter is pouring memes

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Chandigarh, September 6

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The country’s IT hub is rueing in a deluge-like situation and Twitterati is pouring memes.

Ever since the rains have hit the Silicon Valley, people are facing new civic challenges everyday.

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While videos of people swimming across streets to reach their homes have been doing the rounds on the Internet, the latest to jump on the bandwagon are those of techies taking tractor rides to reach their offices.

The IT professionals among others, have resorted to taking tractor rides as various places including Yemalur, near the HAL Airport, was severely waterlogged.

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The city witnessed massive traffic jams and disruptions to daily life as the submerged roads and inundated streets looked like rivulets.

The new experience of an uber cool ride amid incessant rains served fodder for memes on Twitter.

While some questioned the authorities, some took to quirky sarcasm and made the most of the situation by claiming ‘Bengaluru is Venice now’.

Read a few tweets here:

Since Bengaluru is facing the brunt of rain fury, are the work-from-home days back for employees in Bengaluru? Hope, they ‘stay afloat’ till the situation settles.

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