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Heavy overnight rainfall that lashed the metropolis near galore places successful Madurai inundated. The nationalist recovered it hard to question on the waterlogged roads.
Madurai experienced dense downpour accompanied by thunder and lightning successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday. Many parts of the metropolis were inundated, including Arapalayam, Simmakal, Anna Nagar, Goripalayam, Mattuthavani, Anaiyur, Valluvar Colony, Anuppanadi, Kamarajar Road, Villapuram, Bypass Road, Kalavasal, Thathaneri, and Iyer Bungalow.
Passengers recovered it hard to scope the railway junction autobus halt arsenic it was inundated with rainwater a connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: ASHOK R
At daybreak, the public, peculiarly serviceman goers and students recovered it hard to question on the roads. Vehicular question came to a grinding halt. With underpasses successful the metropolis inundated, radical had to usage alternate routes to scope their destination.
At Madurai Railway Junction and astatine large autobus stands, the passengers had to wade done ankle heavy water. Areas successful and astir the Railway Junction and the Periyar Bus Stand were waterlogged. Passengers with their luggage had a hard clip getting successful and coming retired of the place. Despite their champion efforts, the luggage got soaked successful water. The spot resembled an overflowing pond.
In places, including Sellur, the dense downpour had near respective homes inundated. The residents said this was owed to the deficiency of due drainage channels. The residents said they were incapable to slumber and had to walk the full time draining the h2o that had flooded their homes. They said their belongings were damaged arsenic a result.
The residents urged the authorities acrophobic to instrumentality indispensable enactment truthful that specified incidents of h2o flooding the homes successful the country was prevented successful future.
People urged the Madurai Corporation to instrumentality contiguous measures to pump retired the water. They said the authorities had failed to instrumentality due enactment and this had resulted successful h2o being stagnant successful galore places. In places similar K.K. Nagar, adjacent the main roads starring to residential blocks wrong were waterlogged. The residents complained that it was hard for them to get successful and retired of their houses and they had to wade precariously without getting their apparel wet.
The residents said it had go a recurring issue. The complaints of the nationalist person fallen connected deaf ears, the residents said and slammed the authorities.
