Bengaluru: The city once again went underwater on Friday following a heavy downpour. Several roads got inundated with cars and other vehicles struggling to move and pedestrians had to wade through waist deep water at several places. Many trees got uprooted and brought traffic to a halt.
The BBMP Control room was flooded with calls from panic stricken citizens. According to BBMP officials South Bengaluru was the worst affected with many complaints of trees fall.
RT Nagar, KR Market, Koramangala, Shantinagar, Jayanagar, BTM, HBR and HRBR Layout witnessed unprecedented water logging.
Four big trees fell and damaged cars in RV Road, next to Corporator Vani Rao's office and within a span of 45 minutes, Anugraha layout got deluged.
There were power outages in many parts of the city between 7 pm and 8 pm and Adugodi, BTM Layout, Banshankari and Banaswadi were the worst hit.
Between 12 noon to 8 pm, Bescom received 5,300 complaints of power outages, out of which 4044 were attended.
Between 2 pm and 8 pm, two electric poles fell at RR Nagar, one in Shivajinagar and
three in Jayanagar. During same period there were three cases of tree fall in Shivajinagar, two in Jayanagar and one each in Peenya, Indiranagar and RR Nagar.
According to Dr. Sundar S Metri, Head of Meteorological Department, the city may witness such heavy showers in the coming days.
"Both systems have acted at once. Due to low atmospheric pressure (trough) and upper air cyclonic circulation, Bengaluru received heavy rainfall on Friday," Dr Sundar explained.
The MET department has forecast rain and thundershowers over coastal, south interior and north interior Karnataka till Sunday.
The all-India weather inference report stated, "The north-south trough occurred in central Maharashtra to south Tamil Nadu, across Karnataka. It extended up to 0.9 km above mean sea level with an embedded upper air cyclonic circulation over north interior Karnataka and neighbouring regions."
Rs 5 lakh Compensation
The State Government has announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased. The government will also bear the cost of the education of the children of the deceased, said K.J. George, Bengaluru Development Minister.
