India Book :: Blog

10/28/2005

Chennai experienced 42 cm of rain in 40 hours

Filed under: News & Media — Sarabjeet @ 12:21 am

After being battered by heavy rains, Chennai city had some respite from the rains, following bright sunshine today, friday. The weather office said the deep depression, which lay centred 150 km northeast of Chennai, was moving in a northwesterly direction and was likely to cross between Nellore and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Chennai experienced 42 cm of rain in 40 hours between Wednesday and Thursday. The rain, which crippled normal life, has brought copious inflows to the lakes supplying water to the city.

The death toll in rain related incidents has gone up to 65, with one more death reported due to electrocution in the city. Over 50,000 persons have been evacuated from low lying areas, housed in corporation shools and provided one lakh food packets.

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

16 queries. 0.337 seconds. Powered by WordPress - Free Web Hosting & Web Design by Megrisoft