Categories: Gurgaon

Wade-nesday: Flood Hits the main road, Lanes service

Gurgaon: Heavy bath since Tuesday night caused a situation like a flood in various parts of the city on Wednesday morning.
The main arterial road and parts of Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway remain submerged in water until late when many waterlogging mitigation steps by civilians washing channels, again.
The average rainfall is 64.2mm rain.
In areas such as IFFCO Chowk, Narsinghpur, Sector 43, Tower Signatures and UDYOG VIHAR, for example, ankle for knee-depths are reported.
Although there were no major traffic jams reported, the vehicle movement places slowed when the vehicle struggled wading water.
However, in Narsinghpur, several cars and autos broke and cranes had to be deployed to pull them out.
The vehicle was also trapped in several Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway service lines that sank in knee water because some drivers failed to find stormwater waterways, making them stranded for hours.
“My bike was broken in the middle of the road and I fell when I lost control.
I narrowly escaped falling into the sewer,” said Raju, a garment factory worker who was stranded in Narsinghpur.
“The whole area has turned into a river and since this morning, I have seen a car and bicycle broke down.
Usually, we saw the police around but no one on Wednesday.
Only a few NHAI employees who can look busy fixing the pump and managing traffic .
“The streets remain flooded at least until late afternoon, when water starts receding in several places.
The police claimed that while traffic all day can be managed, they faced problems to make traffic moving during the peak office hours in the morning.
Between 6am and 9 am, heavy rains have destroyed the city, making rain cleaning almost impossible.
It has a cascading effect on the traffic movement.
In the signature tower, many are seen driving on the wrong side to avoid being stranded in knee water.
“I can’t risk taking my car in such waters , “said Ramesh, a Uber driver.
Traffic police, who looked with their pants folded up their knees, confirmed that their main task was to make traffic moving and they could not hold themselves in preventing driving the wrong side.
“We have several tasks.
We must keep moving traffic to avoid congestion.
We also help people and vehicles stranded.
We also coordinate with various civil bodies and their officials to help them spread steps to channel rainwater.
So , if some case driving the wrong side is passed by us, someone must understand our situation, “the traffic police said were placed near the signature tower.
While the main part of the city received moderate rainfall in the range of 50 to 70mm to 8am, Pataudi and Farrukhnagar each saw heavy rainfall 211mm and 124mm, according to the weather department.

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