‘Have kids reached home?’ Rain leaves school buses stranded for hours across Gurgaon

GURGAON: For parents, the most frightening part of Monday’s sudden spell of heavy rain was not the waterlogged roads or submerged cars outside their homes.It was knowing that their children were sitting inside school buses and vans, unable to move, while they themselves could not reach them.A series of messages exchanged among parents captured the anxiety as school transport got stuck at severely waterlogged stretches, particularly around Subhash Chowk.Some children were reportedly on their way home for hours, with one bus remaining stuck at the same spot for more than two hours.“Have the kids reached back home?” one anxious parent asked in the group.The replies offered little reassurance. Parents said several buses had reportedly broken down amid heavy waterlogging, further slowing the movement of school transport.Some children had been inside buses since around 12.30pm, with parents reporting that they remained stuck at the same location for hours.