By: S Bhuvaneshwaribengaluru: Ammanaghatta residents at the Gubbi Taluk from the Tumakuru District did not understand what crashed into their village on Thursday.
After receiving 199mm rain in 24 hours, villagers on Friday awakened up to five lakes in their overflowing environment.
The waters circled into 20 houses and the Gram Panchayat office in their midst and coconut floods and plantations and arecanut fields where yeast, corn and other plants stand.
According to the monitoring center of the Karnataka natural disaster, Ammanaghatta, 96km from Bengaluru, received the highest rainfall on Thursday in the state.
The population of around 25 houses built on their farms was stranded with a short road under three feet.
“For two days now, I can’t go to the village to bring milk and groceries because the water from the lake has flooded the road.
I don’t know how long it will continue,” said Gd Nagaraju, a farmer.
Ammanaghatta was a hamlet with 400 houses, 250 of them were on the farm.
The village population is around 3,000.
Doddakere and Chikkakere from Ammanaghatta and neighbors G Aruvesandra Kere, Varadenahalli Kere and Thippura Kere overflowed.