THE metropolis has been flooded on the very first day of the rain, exposing the hollowness of BMC's tall claim on rain-preparedness, but the Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak blames it on heavy outpouring and high tide. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Phatak said during monsoon on an average a city gets over 40mm of rainfall daily. However, the city received 161mm in the very first rain due to which the water logging took place. Services on the rail lines were affected for the second day today although there was no total stoppage of the services, railway police said. Being weekend the desruption was not so serious as many offices and schools were closed Continuing to blame nature, Phatak said the flooding in many parts of the city could be attributed to high tide, which has persisted with the heavy rain, preventing drainage of water. Predicting no inconvenience to the Mumbaikars on Monday, he said "Tomorrow there is high tide expected at around 4 am but is unlikely to have too much effect on drainage of water since it is expected to recede by about 10 am," He refuted claims that the civic body had been caught unprepared for the monsoons and pointed out the first rains over the weekend had been heavier than in previous years. "Last year we received about 70 mm of rainfall during the first rain and for eight days we received more than 75 mm of rainfall a day. However, this year in the first two days we have received over 100 mm of rainfall daily," Phatak said. Many drains were clogged due to garbage on the streets washed away by the first rains and would be cleaned, after which they would work more efficiently, he claimed. Phatak also said the rainfall over the weekend was heavier than expected and in the past two days the city had received 10 per cent of the rainfall it usually received during the monsoons. "So far 302.6 mm of rainfall has been recorded at Santacruz and 238 mm in Colaba which makes up about 10 per cent of the rainfall we get during a monsoon," he said. There are about 650 dangerous buildings which have been identified in the city by the civic authorities and measures would be taken to rehabilitate them, Phatak said.