Chennai Airport Gets Flooded With Water, Rain Wrecks Havoc

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Chennai Flood

Many areas of Chennai and its neighbors have been flooded after two days of continuous and heavy rainfall. Trains have been cancelled and Chennai Airport’s operations have been suspended for an indefinite time all thanks to heavy Chennai rains. The army is helping in rescuing stranded people.

Here are the latest developments:

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1. Airport under water:

Water has entered the runway of the airport and has reached the under carriage of aircrafts which has stranded around 400 passengers at the Chennai airport. Chennai Airport director Deepak Shastri told NDTV that flights won’t be able to take off until the water level decreases. Nine flights and 13 trains have already been cancelled (Last update on Tuesday, 10 pm).

 

Chennai Flood2. Army in action:

The navy is currently on stand by while the NDRF or National Disaster Rescue force has sent ten teams out of which four are already in Chennai and the rest are scheduled to fly tomorrow. 50 personnel of the Indian Army have been deployed in Chennai suburbs Oorapakkam and Tambaram.

 

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3. Chennai zoo also got flooded:

the Chennai rains have affected all lives in the state. The Chennai zoo is flooded and the officials had to walk around 4 kilometers to reach it. Roads in many parts of Chennai are submerged and water has entered many homes. Residents have reported power outage in many parts of the city.

 

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4. Schools are closed for more than 15 days:

Schools have been closed, today marks the 16th day since classes have been suspended and half-yearly examinations have been postponed; because of heavy Chennai rains.

 

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5. Employees of Mahindra World City stuck:

Around 500 employees of the Mahindra World City are said to be stuck on the roads at Gunduvanchery and people are using social media to seek help from private cars, busses and rooftops where they were stranded in.

 

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6. Residents helping each other:

Many Residents have opened their doors to strangers and are offering them food, shelter and even mobile recharges. A mall in South Chennai said that it has kept its door open for the whole night for stranded people.

 

 

Government is trying to bring situation under control. The remedies taken so far:

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1. PM promises all sort of support to the state:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and has assured her of all help from the Centre and he has even tweeted about this on social media platform, Twitter.

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2. State disaster forces in full action:

Ms. Jayalalithaa said that her party is monitoring the crisis very minutely and Fire and Rescue, Police, the coast guard and National and state disaster forces have been kept ready for the evacuation of people from the affected areas.

 

 

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3. Weather forecast officials keeping constant watch on the situation:

The met office said that Chennai rains are expected to continue for the next four days and there was 1049.3 mm of rainfall in Chennai in November. Tamil Nadu has been lashed for the second time in three weeks which is said to be the worst rain in nearly a 100 years.

 

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4. All important emergency numbers:

The Chennai Corporation has announced Emergency Contact numbers for all the regional zones in the city. People can contact the following numbers in case of any emergency due to floods and Chennai rains.

Numbers are as follows:

  1. Sewage overflow – 45674567, 22200335
  2. Tree fall, waterlogging – 1913
  3. District Emergency – 1077
  4. State Emergency – 1070
  5. Fire and Rescue – 101
  6. Electricity – 1912

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Source: NDTV

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    Apart from plain terrain lacking natural gradient for free run-off, the sewage system was originally designed for about just over half a million population. Later it was modified during 1989-91 even then it has not reached the required capacity.

    Due to dumping of garbage and massive reclamation, marshland especially in south Chennai has reduced to one-tenth of its size. Chennai is drained by Cooum River, Adyar River in addition to many major and minor drainage channels through Buckingham Canal to Sea.

    It is only once is ten years that Chennai gets enough rain to flood the city. The rest of time, people pray for rain as ground water levels deplete and water trucks whizz around delivering water to apartment complexes, villas and tenements. But last week it was different. In the first 24 hours Chennai received 246 mm of rainfall. Several years ago, at seminars, Stormwater Management Experts pontificated of the dangers of building the Mass Rapid Transit System on the Buckingham Canal, of constructions on the Pallikaranai marshlands and of locating the Information Technology corridor on a water body. But the constructions continued nevertheless. Gated communities as well as special economic zones have come up in areas which should have been catchments areas. Temple tanks which refueled the ground water through centuries have been concreted. Tenements and apartment complexes have come up on the flood plains of the rivers. The unique eco system with mangroves and intertidal zones will all be a thing of the past. A disastrous cocktail of sewerage and rain water entered homes bringing with it promises of deadly disease, snakes and scorpions. In many parts of South Chennai, the water was almost 1.5 m in depth, especially those which have been constructed on marshes and swamps. Experts point out the Second Master Plan by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has paid no attention to hydrology and stormwater management. In Chennai, 650 water bodies, which include lakes, ponds, and storage tanks, have been eliminated to accomodate new construction.. Today, sadly, there are just 27 water bodies. Chennai has only 855 km of storm drains for the 2,847 km of roads. There is no storage infrastructure to harvest the rain water in Chennai. What makes this a tragedy is that Tamil Nadu is drought prone and has an ongoing quarrel with neigbouring states for water. The main cause, however, for the flooding has been the blatant disregard for ecology by the caucus of politicians, civil servants and developers. Swamps and wet lands such as Pallikarani have been reclaimed to accommodate high rise buildings. The case in point is of Taramani and Velachery, two areas which are waterlogged in the event of rain. Phoenix Mall, the largest mall in Chennai, is on a lake bed.

    Tamil Nadu government has built a slum resettlement colony along the river channel and multi-storeyed housing estates have come up which blocks the natural drainage of river basin into the sea. The original silting pattern was shifted due to the development. Moreover, sewage and industrial effluent dumped into the canal and silting have left the waterway stagnant. Chennai is built on a floodplain, development has essentially gone unchecked: Chennai’s critical infrastructure—like the airport, automobile manufacturing plants, and IT centers as well as thousands of houses—has been built over streams and marshes, and plastic bags clog drainage networks. Chennai’s infrastructure has strained to keep up with the rapid growth. Due to this, the surface run-off is too high and the infiltration capacity of land has gone down drastically. Due to the increase in impervious areas, Chennai experiences severity of floods during every heavy rainfall.

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