Hyderabad: The city received rainfall of more than 100mm on Saturday with several areas flooded and witnessed the fall of trees.
In accordance with the Telangana state development planning data (TSDPS), until 8pm, LB Nagar has received the highest rainfall with 106.3mm, followed by Bathukamma Kunta (105.5); Maruthi Nagar (102.5); Kachiguda and Cherlapally (82.3).
Other areas such as Malakpet, Mouli, Balanagar, Nagole, Begumpet, West Marredpally, Malkajiriri recorded rainfall between 20mm and 80 mm.
The Moosaarambagh Bridge in Malakpet briefly sank with commuters traveling through the Malakpet TV Tower towards Amberpet who looked navigating stretching.
Water recedes in one hour, said an official.
Meanwhile, in the Mangalghat area, the 30-minute rainfall mantra caused a large puddle of water.
“Water flows to the path in Dhoolpet.
After one point, people can barely cross the road, or even reach their homes a few meters away when water flows with high intensity,” said Vinod Boppa, a resident of Aramhar colony in Dhoolpet.
A large tree fell right in front of the Amberpet police station.
This was then cleaned by the GHMC disaster response team.
Special instructions were issued to Mandal Tahsildars of Amberpet, Himayathnagar, Bahadurpura and Golconda to evacuate people from lowland areas.
“Our income officials patrolled by coordinating with GHMC-DRF wings in the affected areas Tell Stoi.
Meanwhile, the Water Council operates a total of eight osmansagar (four water doors) and Himayattasagar (four water doors) at a height of two legs and issuing 960 cusecs from Osmansagar and 2,800 cusecs of flood water from the HimayatSagar reservoir.