On a day when Mumbai was battling torrential rain, the highest in four decades, 50-year-old Kanta Murti Kalan, stood for hours near an open manhole, on a waterlogged road, in Matunga. She was alerting people so that no one falls into the manhole. She was there for seven hours before civic workers arrived. Kanta Murti, a flower seller, lost her house and savings in the deluge.