Several areas in Gurugram were inundated after the city experienced a heavy spell of rain on Wednesday, September 4. Residents had to battle knee-deep water and traffic was also affected in many areas. The situation seemed to be the same even in the posh areas where luxury cars were seen driving through flooded roads. A former Meta employee, Anushri Pawar, has published a post on X that sheds light on the condition in front of DLF Camellias on Golf Course Road, considered one of the poshest residential colonies in Gurugram.

DLF’s high-rise apartments recently made headlines after it was revealed that apartments there were being sold for up to Rs 100 crore. Pawar sarcastically mentioned that these buildings were transformed into “sea-facing” apartments after just half an hour of rain. Her post included a video showing flooded roads outside two of the city’s biggest luxury residential projects – DLF Magnolias and DLF Camellias.

“What should we call it? To the river or to the sea? This is the condition of the roads in front of the camellias and magnolias worth Rs 100 crore on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. This is the condition of the roads after just half an hour of rain and yet people here are buying apartments worth Rs 100 crore,” Pawar wrote in the caption.

The post drew reactions from many people living in other parts of Delhi NCR. A Noida resident revealed in the comments section that the condition of roads in his city is much better. “I have never seen anything like this in Noida. My apartment is fabulous,” the person remarked.

Another viewer claimed: “This is what happens when we chase money and fail as a society.”

One user felt that such incidents should be seen as “an indication that all major cities lack a proper stormwater drainage system parallel to all roads.” “What we are seeing here is nothing but poor urban infrastructure with no stormwater drainage system,” he explained.

A man stated that the poor sewerage system was one of the reasons for his move from Delhi NCR. “I live in Goa now and even though it rains here for 14-15 hours a day during monsoon, there is no waterlogging at all. If Delhi NCR gets a day of rain like Goa, everything gets flooded,” he added in the comment.

Earlier this year, four luxury apartments at DLF Camellias were sold for Rs 106.4 crore each. According to IndexTap, these properties were bought by Dhanuka Agritech joint managing director Rahul Dhanuka, company managing director Harsh Dhanuka, executive chairman Ram Gopal Agarwal and Lenskart co-founder Peyush Bansal.