Chennai comes to a standstill as record rainfall wrecks havoc, hits normal life - See pics
Several pictures and videos showed cars submerged under water, uprooted trees and people being rescued on rubber boats in various parts of the city.
Chennai came to a standstill on Sunday (November 7, 2021) with several parts of the city reporting extensive waterlogging due to heavy showers overnight. The record rainfall also prompted authorities to open up sluice gates of three city reservoirs to let out surplus water. Several pictures and videos showed cars submerged under water, uprooted trees and people being rescued on rubber boats in various parts of the city.
Chennai is seeing incessant rains since Saturday morning
About 260 houses have been damaged
Chennai saw heaviest rainfall since 2015
According to the Deputy Director General of Meteorology, S Balachandran, the all-time record of highest rain in China was 45 CM in 1976. Following that in 1985, the city had recorded 25 CM and 33 CM rainfall on two different dates.
Subsequently, in 2015, the city experienced 25 CM rainfall and now the city has recorded close to that level. (Photo: IANS)
People wade through water logged road
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin inspects several inundated areas
PM Narendra Modi spoke to Stalin and discussed the situation
People being evacuated
Most city and peripheral roads came under sheets of water
Commuters wading through a waterlogged area
Schools, colleges have been shut in Chennai
People using makeshift boat
More rainfall expected across Tamil Nadu
Meanwhile, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that a cyclonic circulation lay over north coastal Tamil Nadu, southeast of the Bay of Bengal and a low-pressure area is likely to form by November 9 and the agency has forecast more rainfall for the next few days in the state. (Photo: IANS)