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Tirumala witnessed incessant rains and beardown winds owed to Cyclone Montha since Monday evening, throwing mean beingness and pilgrim activities retired of gear. Devotees had to endure a batch to scope the Vaikuntam Complex amid dense showers. They besides recovered it hard to instrumentality to their cottages owing to the non-availability of backstage cabs and taxis.
The 2nd ghat roadworthy starring to the shrine witnessed sporadic insignificant landslips astatine a mates of places. In Balaji Nagar residential locality, monolithic trees were uprooted nether the interaction of beardown winds. While a car parked extracurricular a residence was crushed nether a fallen tree, different histrion collapsed crossed a house, though nary casualties were reported.
Meanwhile, each 5 large h2o reservoirs atop the municipality reached afloat capacity. Officials of the TTD Engineering section said that the sluice gates astatine a mates of dams shall beryllium lifted to merchandise surplus inflows, should the rains proceed further.
Despite the mean influx of pilgrims, temple authorities and the unit remained connected alert, coordinating with different departments to guarantee information and support indispensable services. They besides advised pilgrims to workout caution portion successful the town.
