The system has brought 200 mm of rainfall in last 48 hours in Chennai, which is the highest in 3 years
Incessant rains on Monday lashed the city and several parts of Tamil Nadu throwing normal life out of gear.
Chennai: Incessant rains on Monday lashed the city and several parts of Tamil Nadu throwing normal life out of gear. The coastal and radar observation indicated that the deep depression, which came close to forming into a cyclone, crossed north Tamil Nadu coast near Puducherry at around 7.30 pm with a wind speed of 65 kmph. The depression in contrast to the expectations of crossing TN coast by Monday afternoon had centred near Puducherry for most part of the day. The system has brought 200 mm of rainfall in last 48 hours in Chennai, which is the highest in 3 years.
Met department officials hinted that the depression would have its effect for a few more days, but the worst is over. The interiors parts of the state would receive heavy rainfall. The Chennai will also see a few spells of rainfall on Tuesday, but not to great extent. This would bring relief to shopkeepers of fire crackers, whose business was crippled with the storm.
Soundaryarajan, a shopkeeper in Avadi, hoped that there would some respite from rains on Tuesday for him to make quick money. “I invested Rs 2 lakh and was able to sell crackers worth just 20,000 so far. I am keeping my fingers crossed”. Avadi received close to 300 mm from Sunday morning to Monday evening. Officials said state of sea would remain to be rough along and off north TN and fishermen are advised not to venture into sea.
26 EMU Train services cancelled
Heavy showers played spoilsport in railway tracks and stations in the city on Monday delaying train services. Passengers who were busy preparing for Deepavali, were in disarray.
Twenty-six Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) trains on suburban routes between Beach-Tambaram and two services in MRTS route between Beach–Velachery were cancelled and many services were delayed for hours due to falling of trees, signal failure and water logging on the tracks.
All train services between Tambaram-Pallavaram and Chennai beach-Park stations were cancelled for an hour and 45 minutes as trees fell on the tracks near Pallavaram and Park station. Also, to and fro train services at Tambaram station were affected from 6 am till 3.30 pm where it was just a single train that was operated in one hour.
“Tambaram railway track and station premises which is in a low-lying area was completely water-logged due to which the motors near the tracks were submerged affecting electric signals right from 6 a.m.,” said T. Mahendran, a motorman in the Chennai beach-Tambaram section.
Water-logging near the entrance to Egmore, Central, Velachery, Tiruvanmiyur, Beach, Tambaram, Mambalam and Nungambakkam stations caused hardship to passengers. Heavy rain also took a toll on long distance passengers as express trains were rescheduled for nearly two hours from Chennai central station.
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