Click to play videoSurat: Many parts of Surat are still inundated with residents struggling with knee-level to neck-level water.
CNN-IBN's correspondent Jency Jacob waded through flooded Surat streets to find out how the people are coping with the situation.
The contrast between high rises and stand alone houses is evident in Surat. People who live in high rises are safe while people in small houses cannot do anything but patiently wait for the water to recede.
But the residents of Surat are anything but patient. They are wet, hungry and angry.
The city is submerged under five to 20 feet of water and though there was some relief on Thursday when the water levels began to recede, for the hassled residents of the town, that was not even close to enough.
"There is no TV, no radio station, what do we do? We are completely cut off from the world. When will all this get over? We are getting impatient here. The people may be able to live through this for a few days but then what? There may be rioting or something. Anything can happen," says a resident of Surat.
"The water levels may have receded but there is no drinking watre, no milk for the children, nothing," adds another resident.
The adults can stay without water and milk for sometime but as far as children are concerned, they need to be fed. They cannot go hungry for a very long time and that's the biggest worry that the adults are facing in Surat.
For the people here pitted against nature's fury, it's been a fight for survival.
Surat is a perfect example of conflict between man and nature. There is just a fence-like boundary wall that separates a building named Utkhand from the River Tapti.
Usually the river water is about 20 to 25 feet away from the boundary wall but for the last few days the flowing water from the river has managed to breach the boundary wall and enter the building.
The residents are naturally a worried lot about what is going to happen in the future. "We had never imagined that the river water would reach our homes and we are scared for we don't know what to expect in the future."
Ironically most of the residents in the building had bought appartments there for they wanted to stay by the riverside to enjoy the view, but this time the record floods have scared them.
They are wondering how far the water is going to enter into their homes.
The Prime Minister will be visiting Surat on Friday.
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