bucharest subway flooding

seemingly never ending rains have harassed bucharest for the past two weeks. for the most part the rains were annoying in their persistence and didn't cause much more than exasperation, but on friday evening the water curtain came down heavier than usual inundating some parts of the city. caught far from home i had to walk through almost knee high water on what hours earlier were perfectly dry sidewalks. at the piata romana subway stop i witnessed this unusual underground waterfall that you see pictured bellow. apparently the subway system is not waterproof...