Commuters were stuck in cars, buses and autos for hours together
Vehicles stand still at Nungambak-kam in Chennai on Monday. (Photo: DC)
Chennai: Chennai was brought to a standstill by torrential rain Monday evening. Lakhs of vehicles were gridlocked as water flowed on most main roads as if in rivers.
Commuters were stuck in cars, buses and autos for hours together as vehicles inched bumper to bumper in the rain. Southern and central parts of the city received as much as 100 mm of rain between 5 and 9 pm with 61 mm recorded in just the one hour between 5 and 6 pm.
With the water levels high in the Cooum and Adyar rivers and the Buckingham Canal as well as the Kosasthalaiyar river to the northwest and the drains unable to take the rush of water, battered city can be said to have been in its worst shape Monday.
Weather forecasters are warning that a tropical low will continue to bring showers and thunderstorms through Tuesday while another weather system is building out in the Bay of Bengal. What shocked the city was the intensity of rainfall spread over just a few hours unlike November 15 when 212 mm fell in a period of 24 hours to record the rainiest day in the city for years. The season's rainfall in just November in Chennai has crossed 900 mm, which is more than double the monthly high, and the news for a waterlogged region in and around the capital is only gloomy.
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( Source : deccan chronicle )
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