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It has been raining cats and dogs successful confederate districts since aboriginal greeting connected Tuesday. The rainfall that started astir 7.30 a.m. successful Tirunelveli continued with dependable drizzle successful Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar and Madurai districts.
Though determination was airy drizzle to dense rain, determination was nary let-up successful the downpour adjacent for a little while. This near drivers of each vehicles with nary enactment but to support the wiper moving passim the day.
However, determination was nary lightning oregon thunder till afternoon.
As the entity remained overcast passim the day, the prima was not visible. Visibility connected Tirunelveli-Madurai road remained debased arsenic heavy showers forced the drivers of vehicles to power connected their headlights arsenic a precautionary measure.
Parts of the road had rainwater stagnating connected the edges of the carriageway, posing a hazard to the speeding vehicles, particularly cars, which were predominantly returning from confederate districts arsenic a ample fig of radical had visited their autochthonal places for celebrating Deepavali.
Some of the speeding vehicles, particularly buses, splashed rainwater connected the windscreen of different vehicles frankincense blind-folding the drivers for a fewer seconds.
The rainfall besides brought down the fig of vehicles plying connected the highway. A precise fewer two-wheeler riders were seen plying connected the roadworthy braving the continuous drizzle. Some of them were riding with women and children. Some stretches of the roads wore a deserted look, which is successful stark opposition to the unreserved of festival season.
A fewer radical were seemingly caught unawares by the rainfall arsenic they did not person raincoats oregon helmets to flight from the crisp showers.
With astir of the roadside shops remaining closed, those buildings provided refuge to the motorcycle riders from the dense downpour.
All the streams cutting crossed the four-way road had a bully travel of rainwater.
