Flooded arterial roads turn chennai’s bane
The northeast monsoon showers not only uprooted trees but also badly affected the city's infrastructure as arterial roads were inundated affecting vehicular and pedestrian movement, (Photo: N. Sampath)
Chennai: The northeast monsoon showers not only uprooted trees but also badly affected the city’s infrastructure as arterial roads were inundated affecting vehicular and pedestrian movement.
A look at Velachery Main Road would describe the pathetic condition. A 300 m stretch between Gandhi Road junction and Ceebros apartments was completely washed away in the overnight rain, leaving craters for motorists to negotiate.
Still worse. The main road was only recently relaid by corporation at a significant cost. “Hardly two weeks. That is all the time this road was without potholes,” lamented Rangan, a resident, while
pointing at the loose gravel strewn around. Tansi Nagar and Baby Nagar in nearby Perungudi and Taramani all saw flooded streets with residents wading through hip-deep water in some places.
Indira Nagar in Adyar lost a good portion of its tree cover on Monday. Indira Nagar first and third main roads saw plenty of tree casualties while the avenues remained waterlogged.
Opposite Madras Veterinary College at Vepery, an old fallen tree occupied a portion of the road and footpath. In Saidapet and on Whites Road, traffic police were seen helping workers in chopping fallen trees and digging temporary channels to drain rain water. Corporation officials were at their wits end trying to handle rain damage. In many places, officials were pumping out water from stagnated areas only to drain it out onto a main road or another street and flooding it. “The stormwater drain was carrying full capacity. Due to high tides, water is not flowing into the sea,” said a senior official.
Rain-related incidents claim six lives
Chennai: A child and a man died and a woman injured in three separate incidents due to rain on Monday. C. Veerasamy, 70, was killed after a tree uprooted and fell on his house at Nemmelli near Chingleput. The deceased was asleep in his house when the tragedy occurred around 9 30 am.
In another incident at Kanathur, a two- year-old child, Pavithra, died after a wall collapsed on her house following heavy rain. A native of Marakanam, Villupuram, the child was asleep along with her grandparents when the compound wall fell trapping all three. The grandparents are receiving treatment at Government Royapettah Hospital.
A 65-year-old woman was injured when a wall collapsed on her at Nungambakkam. She is being treated at KMC hospital. S.Mukesh, studying in class II died after he slipped and fell into a canal near S.S Puram at Secretariat colony on Monday evening. Neighbours found his body. It has been sent for post-mortem. In another case, the body of an unidentified man aged 35 was found floating in a stormwater drain near Moolakadai junction on GNT road. Another 35 year old unidentified man was found dead near CMBT.
A 40-year-old man was found lying unconscious near the gate of the government hospital in the morning. The attenders at the hospital rushed him inside , but was declared dead on arrival.
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