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TN floods highlights: Chennai turns island; road, rail, air links disrupted Live

The Rains Have Also Severely Disrupted Train And Bus Services And Forcing Postponment Of Half-yearly School Exams And Closure Of Schools In Chennai, Kancheepuram And Tiruvallur Districts.

News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Devika Chhibber | Updated on: 02 Dec 2015, 11:53:21 PM

New Delhi :

Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Wednesday braced for heavy, non-stop torrential rains for the upcoming days as predicted by IMD. Normal life was disrupted creating chaos and triggering a deluge and thus calling army and navy deployment in the two suburbs.

 

The forces are undertaking rescue on a war footing strategy to bring out those who are stuck in the deluge.

 

Some navy personnel were involved in Sadiapet area of Chennai to rescue people marooned in low-lying areas.

 

Meanwhile, all flight operations at Chennai airport were suspended thus halting 11 foreign and 9 domestic flights. The decision will be taken soon to take a call on resuming operations. It has been suspended till 6 AM tomorrow.

 

This year, the rains have virtually broken a 100-year-old record with one day's rainfall covering a month's average.

 

The rains have also severely disrupted train and bus services and forcing postponment of half-yearly school exams and closure of schools in Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts.

 

Help stranded people in Chennai via Google Docs

 

To help the stranded people in the state a Google doc is being shared on social media with details of the places where those stranded can get shelter.

 

Here is the link of the Google doc:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rZc3e9scewKxbZBn0vfDqkxOTy_NJYUBSfsVPgnkmdY/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0&vpid=A1

 

Chennai Map tells you exactly which roads are flooded

 

And Chennai residents are now attempting to be better prepared. A crowd-sourced effort has helped to build a digital map that identifies flooded streets in the city. At present the map shows 1515 inundated roads. 

 

Here is the link:

 

http://osm-in.github.io/flood-map/chennai.html#11/13.0000/80.2000/-30

 

Here are some local helpline numbers:

     

  • Water logging– 1913
  • Sewage overflow– 45674567, 22200335
  • State–1070
  • District–1077
  • Electricity–1912
  • NDRF 011-24363260, 00919711077372

 

 

 

If you also want to reach your near and dear ones in flooded Chennai, please leave a message for your family and friends in the box below the story:

 

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First Published : 02 Dec 2015, 11:19:00 AM

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