Air, bus, train services disrupted
A patient being shifted from a flooded hospital after heavy rains in Chennai Tuesday (Photo: AP)
Chennai: The Met department hit the bull's eye Tuesday as it rained, rained and rained some more with the city receiving more than enough water to sink it. Normal life was only an abstract term as students, office-goers and even normally stay-at-home Chennaiites were affected by the deluge that rocked the city, causing even more despair and inflicting water woes just as the city was recovering from the setbacks of an extremely rainy November.
Those who were brave enough to take their vehicles out on the streets soon regretted their decision to override the Met office expert opinion as traffic chaos had gripped vehicular movement right across the city.
Rainwater took over the arterial Anna Salai and the Jawaharlal Nehru 100 feet road, which connects Kathipara to Koyambedu, as motorists were spotted pulling their stalled motorcycles along.
Commuters were hit as the MTC suspended several of its services while, without power, residents were affected as they could not cook food or have easy access to essentials like drinking water etc.
Air traffic was severely affected with pilots and cabin crew unable to reach the airport in time for duty, Air passengers landing in Chennai had to wait an interminable time on the ground too as offloading of passengers was slow, particularly in the non-aerobridge flights.
Flight operations shut down at Chennai airport
All flight operations at the Chennai airport were completely shutdown late evening on Tuesday. The decision was taken at 8.30 pm after the authorities viewed the conditions as unsafe and not suitable for functioning. Several flights have been cancelled while many were delayed leaving passengers stranded.
“All operations were suspended after there was water on the runway. Aircrafts were flying till 8 after which the decision was taken at 8.15 to shut down operations by 8.30”, said Deepak Shastri.
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