Child and milk packets in hand, a woman wades through a flooded street in Chennai on Saturday.
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But the call was anything but ordinary. They used special effects to claim that the news anchor was steadily drowning in the rising waters.
“We feel rather helpless”, he said. The army is out on the streets evacuating the stranded. Subject to no more heavy rains, the airport is expected to be fully functional by Tuesday.
However, India is home to several of the top-10 most polluted cities in the world, according to the World Health Organization, with six appearances on the list, including the top four.
A steadily rising number of families sought safety on the Basion Bridge flyover, many slum-dwellers whose homes had been washed away.
Chennai: Government-owned banks will function on Sunday in flood-affected Chennai and other Tamil Nadu districts in order to help people.
Prithivi Mohandas, the hospital’s managing director, told the media that lights and other equipment ceased to work due to power failure. Bablu Ramamurthy, 80, was caught unprepared and stood petrified in her ground-floor apartment in the Ashok Nagar neighborhood as water reached her waist. “I do not know how I will replace all my things”. “There’s still a lot of waterlogging in several areas in the city”, she reported. Cellphone connectivity has been disrupted, meaning that stranded residents are often unable to communicate their situation to rescue teams.
– NDRF team is trying to extend the relief material to affected people.
In a major relief, Air Indian and Jet Airways have chose to resume partial flight services from Chennai Airport on Sunday morning.
“Now when Chennai is affected by floods, we have responded again”. In that hospital, 57 ventilator patients were moved out, out of 75 ICU patients and remaining patients died over the past two-three days.
The post, along with an image, was written by Balaji Narayanan on December 3, one of the worst days of floods and continuous rainfall. Express your views in the comment section below.
Radhakrishnan said Saturday that while the immediate rescue operations were tapering off, the main focus of the government will be to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. “It is a matter of justifiable pride that this government has addressed a disaster of this magnitude so successfully”.
As the need for rescue has come down, 50 NDRF teams and 13 army columns deployed there are now pressed more into relief services rather than rescue operations.
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The outflow of water from the Chembarampakkam reservoir and Poondi Lake in Tiruvallur district, which caused inundation in many South Chennai areas, is kept to the same level.
