Coimbatore: Heavy Rain Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode and Namakkal District in West Tamil Nadu on Friday.
Agriculture fields are flooded, roads are flooded and some houses are damaged in the district eroded and namakkal.
What began as drizzle, accompanied by lightning that was unrelenting around 3am, soon grew into heavy rain in Tiruchengode, Pallipallayam and its surroundings in the Namakkal district.
Rain continues for the next four hours without rest, flooding the lowland area and agricultural fields.
Rainwater gushed to houses in Suriyampalayam in Tiruchengode and the Kootapalli colony.
Government authorities must decide on the power supply to the affected areas to prevent unwanted incidents.
Fire and rescue service personnel and local body staff were deployed and they were with residents pumping water from houses.
Officials said rainwater had entered houses in Pallipallayam too.
Traffic also stopped at many roads in Pallipallayam because of waterlogging.
The PalLipallayam bus stand is closed and used from Erode to Salem through Pallipalayam diverted through other routes.
At least four roof houses were damaged in disaster related to rain in Muniappan Kovil Street in Suriyampalayam in this district.
However, no one was injured.
While there are concessions of rain during the day, rainwater does not recede from residential areas.
Collector Namakkal Shreya P Singh said the income and city administration staff took efforts to drain rainwater from the road and residential area.
“We have evacuated residents of 10 houses and moved them to a relieved camp at school.
We have arranged food for them.” The collector also examined the areas hit by flooding.
He found that storm waterways were blocked in several places and there was encroachment in two places in the water channel that hindered the flow of rainwater, resulting in flooding.
He has ordered officials to immediately erase encroachment.
In Gobichettipalayam in the Erode District, rice which was stocked for the procurement by Tamil Nadu Civil Supply Wet Corporation, triggered fear among the farmers they would be waste.
Farmers said the rice harvest was underway at 24,000 hectares in Gobichettipalayam.
The state government has opened more than 20 procurement centers in the region, where rice harvested remains open.
Paddy was stored in 10 centers like that, including those in Nanjagoundanpalayam and polavakcalypallayam, soaked in the rain, the farmers said.
They now have to take back rice, dry and bring them back with additional expenses.
Tirupur district also received rainfall and stopped and some stretches were flooded.
While Coimbatore avoided heavy rain at the beginning of the day, he gathered strength at night.
Heavy rain brings havoc in namakkal, eroding the district
