Cars and houses submerged in water, travelers walking through in the middle of water reaching up to their knees from floods and homeowners calculating the cost of destroyed properties.
Welcome to Lagos during the rainy season. Residents of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, are accustomed to the annual floods that engulf the coastal city during the months of March through November.
In mid-July, however, Lagos Island’s main business district experienced one of its worst floods in recent years.
“It was very bad and unusual,” Eselebor Oseluonamhen, 32, told CNN.
“I left my house… I did not realize it had fallen so much….
The more we walked, the higher the water level.
The water kept rising until it covered the bumper of my car, then it started flowing inside my car, “recalled Oseluonamhen, who runs a media firm on the Lagos continent.
