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Torrential rainfall that lashed Madurai metropolis connected Thursday evening has erstwhile again exposed the atrocious information of the metropolis roads. Waterlogging connected arterial roads, thoroughfares and interior lanes caused overmuch inconvenience to conveyance users and pedestrians alike.
The rainfall lashed the metropolis and its suburbs for adjacent to an hour. Some of the places successful the metropolis that received dense rainfall see Teppakulam, Anna Nagar, K.K. Nagar, Kamarajar Salai, Goripalayam, Tallakulam, Iyer Bungalow, Periyar Bus Stand and Mattuthavani. Places similar Melur, Tirumangalam, Thirupparankundram and surrounding areas successful Madurai territory besides recorded dense rainfall.
Due to the waterlogging, conveyance users recovered it hard to walk done the main roads. They had to thrust their vehicles dilatory on the roads starring to postulation snarls astatine respective places.
Since rainwater filled potholes and stagnated connected roads, the conveyance users unknowingly deed potholes astatine galore places. They were besides incapable to spot submerged velocity breakers. Officer-goers and schoolhouse and assemblage students who were returning location successful the evening recovered it hard to question on the roads arsenic vehicular question had travel to a grinding halt.
Not lone the conveyance users faced a hard clip moving done the water-logged roads, but galore pedestrians, including schoolhouse and assemblage students, faced a pugnacious clip wading done the water-logged roads.
With their umbrellas retired and immoderate wearing raincoats, radical had to wade done ankle-deep water, and successful immoderate places adjacent knee-deep water, to scope their destinations. Many radical had to instrumentality structure astatine roadside shops till the strength of the rainfall reduced.
In places similar K.K. Nagar, the streets were filled with ankle-deep h2o making it hard for the residents to get successful and retired of their houses. Water besides entered the houses successful low-lying areas. People had a hard clip draining the water.
The residents complained that it had go a recurring issue. The complaints of the nationalist were not being looked into by authorities. As a result, each clip it rained successful the city, determination was waterlogging. There was a request for due tempest h2o drains, they said.
