Chennai: When Chennai got a break from the rain after a week on Saturday, three days of heavy bathing brought the Kanyakumari district to the knee with the overflowing river flooded all six marks in the district.
One person was feared to have been laughed at Mullaiyaru while the power of the state disaster response and the police saved 2,267 people belonging to 755 families and moved them to 48 rescue centers.
The trajectory and landslip that floods interfere with Nagercil-Thiruvananthapuram and Nagercil-Tirunelveli rail traffic.
“More than 40,000 cusec water flows through the Thamiraparani river in Kuzhithurai on Saturday night against a river capacity of 20,000 cusecs,” said an official.
The district recorded an average rainfall of 100.48mm in 24 hours until 8 am on Saturday.
In Chennai, at least 78 locations and 167 roads continued to face stagnation of water on Saturday.
Some areas in Alwarpet, Kodambakkam, Madhavaram, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, Semmenryry and Perumbakkam continue to remain under the knee water.
IMD said the new low-pressure area was formed in the South Andaman Sea at 8:30 a.m.
on Saturday.
While the city can avoid the new weather system, some areas may get a light to the next two days because of the cyclone circulation.
The state government, meanwhile, formed a panel of 14 members under retired Bureaucrat V Thiruppugazh to suggest a way to design the flood control method and design storm waterways to reduce the impact of the flood.
Head of the City and State Planning Organization Planner in Delhi, Nambi Apppadurai, Director, World of Climate Resilience Practices; Janakiran of the Institute of Madras Development Studies; Gotil Gupta from IIT Bombay; Pradeep Moses, director, the center of human settlement, and experts from CMDA, corporations, highways, and the Department of Environment will be its members.
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