![]() Inundation in several places like the Five Furlong Road in Guindy-Velachary point was about three feet or a little over it. ![]() The streets around Hasthinapuram, close to suburban Chrompet resembled an angry speeding river, with water level raising over three-feet. The bylanes of Pudupet, near the swollen Cooum River, Choolai, Semmancherry, Kodambambakkam, KK Nagar-MGR Nagar and Arumbakkam were among the innumerable neighbourhoods hit by the deluge. ![]() The heavy rainfall, since Tuesday night covered almost the entire city under sheets of water including the downtown Mylapore and heavily inundated several parts of neighbourhoods, including Velachery and rainwater entered state-run hospitals in KK Nagar and Chromepet prompting authorities to shift patients to other facilities.įearing damage, several residents of deluge-hit Ram Nagar in Madipakkam parked their cars on the nearby Velachery flyover's margin or underneath similar facilities nearby. The depression, that moved towards the metropolis on Thursday is all set to cross the coast here soon while the authorities used heavy duty motors, robotic excavators and deployed its full manpower to pump out water, de-clog drains, remove trash and uprooted trees. Chennai: Amid dark clouds and squally winds, the flooding, triggered by intense showers and release of surplus from dams transformed several areas here and in the suburbs into a virtual, large water body as streets swirled with deluge and trash, while 14 people were killed in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu. ![]()
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