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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Deluged Chennai cries for help as airport flooded, trains stop, phones out

Deluged Chennai cries for help as airport flooded, trains stop, phones out

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published Published on Dec 3, 2015   modified Modified on Dec 3, 2015
-The Times of India

CHENNAI: There was no let up to the rain fury in the city and several coastal parts of Tamil Nadu. The city received 34.5cm rain in the past 24 hours. Met officials said the state hasn't been lashed by such a downpour in 100 years. Road and and rail links are down and the airport is flooded.

Complaints of patchy to poor mobile phone service have been coming in making it even more difficult for people elsewhere to get in touch with their near ones.

Essential supplies and ration have dried up and with the water level consistently rising, many have taken refuge on terraces. Along the banks of the Adyar river, flood waters have touched the second floor of housing board colonies. Till last reports came in, the death toll had reached 251.

AT THE AIRPORT: With the airport tarmac under water, all flights remained suspended on Wednesday. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) said the airport will remain shut till December 6.

On Wednesday, lounges at the airport were packed with hundreds of stranded passengers and TV reports said AAI was trying to evacuate them to Tirupati and Bengaluru.

Making matters worse, the road from the city to the airport was badly damaged. A prominent businesswoman tweeted how more than 700 people were held up at the terminal and one Twitter user even offered accommodation to the stuck passengers at her home.

In New Delhi, civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said the airport was crippled and a decision on resuming operations could be taken only after rain stopped.

The National Disaster Relief Force that has so far deployed 10 teams in Tamil Nadu will rush in 600 more personnel and 40 inflatable boats. As Chennai airport is flooded, it was decided that the airfields of Arakkonam, Tirupati, Tambaram and Trichy will be utilized for the operations," said an official.

TRAIN SERVICES OUT: With railway tracks disappearing under water, train services were suspended. Suburban services too are crippled. Thousands of trains passengers were stuck at different places. "We're taking measures to provide drinking water and other basic facilities to the passengers stranded in trains and at stations," tweeted railway PRO Anil Saxena. But there have been bitter complaints from the stranded of little help reaching them.

There were reports of many people who left for office on Tuesday evening failing to reach home.

BUSES AND ROADS: With water levels rising menacingly and almost drowning parked cars, bus services have been suspended. Hardly any inter-state buses have plied in the last few days and even highways leading out of Chennai have become unusable.

Marooned and distressed, Chennai residents are more worried as the weatherman has forecast more rainfall over the next three days. "The phenomenon will continue for the next seven days, but the next 48 hours are very crucial," L S Rathore, DG, Indian Meteorological Department, said in Delhi.

MINI WATERBODIES: Chennai roads have turned into mini water bodies as the incessant downpour inundated them, rendering many useless. Police barricaded many spots at key roads in areas like Ekkatuthangal, Kotturpuram, Guindy and suburban Tambaram, among others, where roads were flooded.

Naval divers and inflatable boats have been deployed at Adyar and Kotturpuram. Alok Bhatnagar, Naval officer in charge, TN and Puducherry, said the INS Airawat and other amphibian vessels had been deployed to Chennai.

PHONE NETWORK: Mobile phones and fixed lines were out of service and ATMs did not function. In the few that were open, long queues formed. The marooned risked lives to stock up on supplies as more rain was forecast.

The Times of India, 3 December, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Deluged-Chennai-cries-for-help-as-airport-flooded-trains-stop-phones-out/articleshow/50020158.cms


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