The latest floods have inundated helplines in India's technology hub Bengaluru with operators receiving distress calls as snakes and snakelets make their way into homes, offices, parking lots, cars, and wherever they can find a shelter to survive
On September 5, at around 10.30 pm, Shuayb Ahmed got a call just as he was about to settle for the night. He was needed for a snake rescue—people trying to take their cars out of a flooded basement parking lot in an apartment complex in Bengaluru, India’s IT hub and home to some of the world’s top companies, had seen a large snake in the water.
“Dealing with a cobra swimming in the water is very dangerous,” Ahmed said. But he did what he had to do, and waded in after the snake. As he got within reach, the cobra dove underwater. Then he got a call from a man who had parked his car next to the highway. He had taken it out of the submerged parking lot of his apartment and was driving it to a workshop when he heard a suspicious rustling sound, only to find a cobra nestled in the storage area of the passenger door.
One of the areas hit worst by the flooding is the eastern edge or the “IT hub” of the city, a place that went through monumental transformation beginning in the late 1990s, when the city’s tech boom started, leading to rampant construction.
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