The news of the flood had reached the people. Everyone flocked to the Zayandeh Roud (the life-giving river) to watch it. A strange mass of people had formed all along the banks of the river.
The areas around the Si-o-Se Pol and the Khaju bridges were the most crowded. People had come to see the roar and rebellion of the river.
Waves reached up to the middle of the Khaju Bridge and fell down the other side with a thunderous sound and kept moving.
The water had risen more than a metre and had even leaked into the city in some places.
That flood was so spectacular and unprecedented that Malik al-Shu’ara Bahar (the renowned Iranian poet and scholar) composed a poem describing it.
