Apparently, in a letter addressed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, Shah Rukh wrote: “We are all deeply affected by the devastation wreaked on the city of Chennai by the fury of nature”.
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Severe floods that have hit the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu killed 18 hospital patients this week after rainwaters knocked out generators and switched off ventilators, officials said Saturday.
However, other coastal districts and interior Tamil Nadu may witness heavy rainfall over the next 24 hours, Regional Meteorological Director S. Balachandran said.
Chennai succumbed to a disastrous downpour of rain and the whole city came to a halt.
Heavy rains – the worst in a century – battered Chennai, Kanchipuram, Cuddalore and Thiruvallur districts for the past month resulting in unprecedented floods and causing widespread destruction.
Resumption of public transport – bus and train services – have made people’s life easier.
22,500 sanitation workers of the corporation, besides 8,000 odd sourced from elsewhere are working overtime to dispose of the waste on 600 vehicles at their disposal, officials said.
This year’s deluge – which experts linked to the El Nino weather pattern, when the waters of the Pacific Ocean get warmer than usual – caught Chennai, with a population of 9.6 million, completely unprepared.
Meanwhile Tamil Nadu’s upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign starting on December 10 in Hyderabad will be boosted by the inclusion of two India players R Ashwin and M Vijay who will join the team after the SA series.
Word is, Rajini fans are already in the midst of relief work in flood-hit areas.
According to her, a total of 80,120 people belonging to the army, navy, air force and National Disaster Response Force, fire service, Coast Guard, police and others were involved in the rescue efforts.
Chennai airport was returning to normalcy after resuming operations on Sunday.
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Met forecast is that another one week the rain will continue.
