BANGALORE, Jul 21: The monsoon which has been playing hide and seek struck Bangalore on Sunday with renewed force. There was non-stop downpour after 8 pm for a few hours, bringing in its wake flooding and traffic jams.

The weatherman doesn't have a good forecast: Bangaloreans will experience thunderstorm for another two days.

The heavy rain, accompanied by strong winds and thunder, made many areas inaccessible. The Met department had recorded 79.6 mm rainfall till 11.30 pm.

The rain fury hit even upmarket areas like Indiranagar and prominent roads like West of Chord Road and Vittal Mallya Road along with vulnerable areas like Puttenahalli, Kammanahalli and DJ Halli.

In Indiranagar, around 200 houses in the vicinity of children's park were flooded. The residents of Indiranagar H Colony spent a nervous night fearing the collapse of the leaning electric poles.

Initially, west and east areas experienced heavy rainfall which later spread to south. A car and an autorickshaw which tried to negotiate the heavily flooded roads in front of Iskcon temple on West of Chord Road couldn't do so. The vehicles started floating on the water while the occupants managed to get down. Water-logging on K H Double Road had led to a huge traffic pile-up till Lalbagh.