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Met dept predicts more rain over next 48 hours as Chennai limps back to normalcy

Met dept predicts more rain over next 48 hours as Chennai limps back to normalcy

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-12-01 15:38 GMT
After devastating floods, Chennai is limping back to normalcy with ramped up relief efforts and improved transportation and communication systems.
Puducherry and its suburbs continued to be lashed by heavy rains since last night and it recorded 15.2 cm rain in the last 24 hours ending 0830 hours on Tuesday.
Motorists had a tough time as not only arterial roads like Anna Salai and, GST Road were inundated but also many interior roads. Also, many roads were damaged, with several of them caving in inconveniencing motorists.
Twelve trains leaving Chennai Egmore were cancelled due to water overflowing on railway tracks between Villupuram - Tambaram section. Also, eleven trains were diverted.
Jayalalithaa said police, fire and rescue, National and State Disaster Forces and Coast Guard have been kept ready for need-based evacuation of people from flood hit regions.
As a result of the rains, Poondi, Cholavaram, Puzhal and Chembarambakkam reservoirs that feed Chennai have touched 83.8 per cent of its capacity and out of the 14,098 lakes under PWD in Tamil Nadau 6,791 lakes are full.
Met office has cautioned of more showers in the next four days across Tamil Nadu with some regions likely to witness heavy to very heavy rainfall.
Indian Army has been called in for rescue and relief operations in Chennai.
Flight operations also took a hit due to rains. Airport officials said one flight, which had left Colombo this morning, returned.
Half-yearly exams in schools, which were to have begun on December 7, were postponed. Schools were closed on Tuesday and will remain shut tomorrow as well.
The total rainfall in Chennai was 119.73 cm till midnight on Monday breaking the 1918 record of 108.8 cm which had stood as the highest record. As the death toll in rain-related incidents touched 188.
Heavy rains on Tuesday pounded several parts of Tamil Nadu and inundating most areas of Chennai, severely disrupting flights, train and bus services and forcing postponement of half-yearly school exams even as the state braced for more showers in
Though November rainfall just fell short of breaking 100-year-old record by 38 mm, the December month is likely to breach all records and has also begun on a wet note, rather disastrous way considering the rain repair works were still on in the city
Traffic managers in the city were at their wit's end on Tuesday with heavy rain flooding all roads and motorists struggling for hours to reach their destination
Rain gods didn't spare any area after a week of respite. Early Tuesday morning showers contributed to inundation in several localities compounded by the incessant lashing that continued throughout the day.
Teams have also been pressed into service in Jafarkhanpet, Saidapet and Kotturpuram on the banks of Adyar and Vadapalani and Valasaravakkam and several areas in the western parts of the city which have been flooded with waters entering residential
DG MeT Department Laxman Singh Rathore said, "Extremely heavy rainfall has been occurring for sometime and today Tamil Nadu has witnessed 35 cm of rainfall that has created havoc. (Photo: E K Sanajay)
The Coast Guard has deployed its boats in some areas in the city that has witnessed unprecedented rains in a short period of time in recent memory. (Photo: E K Sanajay)
Teams of army, navy, coast guard and NDRF have been deployed in the worst-affected areas of Tambaram, the southern gateway to the city, Mudichur and Oorapakkam.(Photo: E K Sanajay)
Though the heavy rains that lashed the city and the suburbs and neighbouring districts of Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Cuddalore for more than a day yesterday have shown a let up since this morning, a continuous drizzle under overcast skies spelled
Chennai and several coastal areas of the state were marooned in flood waters following incessant heavy rains that pounded the city and the neighbouring districts cutting the state capital from rail and road links even as the airport was shutdown for
A Hindu temple is partially submerged in flood waters of an over-flowing Adyar River in Chennai (Photo: AP)
A woman and children are rescued on a boat from a flooded Kotturpuram area (Photo: AP)
Hundreds of homes and offices have submerged in the torrential rains.
As many as 255 Navy personnel were pressed into service with 12 boats and 15 helicopters for reaching relief. (Photo: PTI)
NDRF teams have doubled the number of their rescuers in the rain and flood-battered Chennai and adjoining areas to 1,200. (Photo: PTI)
NDRF has deployed about 110 inflatable and other kinds of boats and separate assortment of buoys and life jackets with the rescue and relief teams so that the needy and the marooned get help. (Photo: Deccan Chronicle)
A total of 28 NDRF teams with over 1,200 personnel were deployed in Chennai where they rescued around 5,000 marooned people by deploying over 110 boats. Two NDRF teams were deployed in Puducherry. (Photo: Deccan Chronicle)
Teams of NDRF and army and police and fire service men swung into action to rescue people from their flood homes in Kotturpuram, Nandanam, Jafferkhanpet, Saidapet and the suburbans areas of Velacheri, Madipakkam, Tambaram and Mudichur localities
Rescue and relief operations were in full swing on Thursday in the worst flood-affected areas of Chennai and suburbs and neighbouring districts. (Photo: Deccan Chronicle)
Prime MInister taking overview of flood relief operations at INS Rajali, Arakkonam Naval Air station. (Photo: Twitter/PIB)
Narendra Modi conducted an aerial survey of the flood affected areas to take stock of the situation. (Photo: PTI)
Narendra Modi announced that Rs. 1000 crores will be released immediately by the government of India to Tamil Nadu for immediate relief. (Photo: PTI)
A man awaits rescue outside his water logged house after heavy rains at Kotturpuram area (Photo: PTI)
Trains stand stranded at a railway station near flooded tracks after heavy rains in Chennai (Photo: AP)
People receive food packets distributed by navy personnel in Chennai (Photo: AP)
A wailing relative of the people who lost their lives in the floods, at the Government Hospital, Royapettah in Chennai (Photo: PTI)
The rescue work was being spearheaded by the armed force but people in many localities (Photo: AP)
Several patients admitted to MIOT Hospital lost their lives due to heavy rainfall (Photo: AP)
People sitting under an overbridge after they were rescued (Photo: AP)
People arrange their belongings as they prepare to return homes after flood water started receding in several parts (Photo: AP)
A Coastguard chopper airlifts a sailor after he delivered food material to a residential area (Photo: AP)
There were serpentine queues outside the petrol stations that were operating. Tamil Nadu government has said that the fuel situation will ease in the next couple of days (Photo: AP)
A patient is shifted to an ambulance after the hospital she was being treated in had to be shut down because of power failure and being inundated with floodwaters (Photo: AP)
Furthermore, industrial units, factories, hotels and shops have suffered severe waterlogging and this loss is yet to be evaluated. The state’s financial resources that may be spent first on relief and restoring the infrastructure would again run
The estimated revenue expenditure of Tamil Nadu for 2015 is around Rs 1,47,297 crores and the rain damage will push these expenses up to an alarming level, the official revealed.
Villagers have lost their crops, cattle and their hutments in Tiruvallur, Cuddalore and Kanchee-puram districts, the official, now monitoring the relief work, told Deccan Chronicle.
In just Tambaram 20,000 people suffered waterlogging after their basement and ground floor were flooded.
Coastguard sailors load a truck with relief material to be distributed to the flood-affected in Chennai. Although floodwaters have begun to recede, vast swaths of Chennai and neighboring districts were still under 2 1/2 to 3 meters (8 to 10 feet) of
But, just in the first two days of December, the deluge was a monumental disaster, inundating as it did houses, largely in south Chennai. If calculated, the losses suffered by the people due to the damage to their houses would be much higher.
The official went on to elaborate that the state’s official estimate of the rain damage crossed Rs 9,800 crore in the November rains itself even when such damage was restricted mostly to the state’s infrastructure with roads and causeways broken
The loss to the state and the people from the rain and flash floods this northeast monsoon season may have crossed a staggering Rs 50,000 crore already. And if the situation persists for the next few days, the total financial loss could escalate to
In a massive relief for stranded passengers, train services have been resumed from the Chennai Central station from Monday.
Chennai Corporation said 24,500 sanitation personnel, including 2,000 personnel from other districts were on the field to clear garbage and tidy up the city.
Apart from medical-checkups, 'Nilavembu Kudineer', a prophylactic herbal neem drink that controls all types of fever associated with body ache, is being given to residents.
As a precautionary measure, the state government has declared holidays for schools and colleges Monday in the districts, including Chennai, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur.
Met dept predicts more rain over next 48 hours as Chennai limps back to normalcy

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