Rain continues in some areas, thousands rescued
In heavily flooded areas like Mudichur and Tambaram, people were looking up to the skies praying for the rains to stop, and for relief materials.
Life for people in Chennai continues to be difficult though rains have stopped in the city. Many areas in Chennai still remain under water and supply of essentials is difficult, say residents.
“Waterlogging continues to be there. The only mercy was that there were no rains,” said Viswanath, a resident.
The water flow in the Adyar river has come down and the amount of surplus water was released into the river from the Chembarambakkam lake.
The Southern Railways have announced special trains to Tirunelveli, Rameswaram and Howrah from Chennai Beach station. The power supply was restored in the areas where water has receded, but it was still cut in many other places.
Mobile phone services, which had taken a severe beating following the heavy downpour on Tuesday, were partially restored even as other services such as ATMs continued to remain shut.
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All banks in flood affected areas in Tamil Naidu will remain open on Sunday and will also offer extended business hours, says Finance Ministry. ANI
Airport to resume partial operations
Chennai Airport to resume partial operations from Saturday. Authorities may carry relief and ferry services. This is only for day time departures, it may take sometime for full-fledged operations to start.
"If there is no further rain, we will start operations on Chennai airport from tomorrow", says Mahesh Sharma, MoS, Aviation.
"We have requested all airlines to maintain price cap in this time of crisis," he added. ANI
Take lessons from rain crisis: Puducherry CM
The havoc wreaked by heavy rains here should be a lesson for officials of the public works and local administration departments that they may take the necessary steps for adequately dealing with such crises in the future, Chief Minister N Rangasamy has said.
With the unprecedented rains hitting normal life in the Union Territory of Puducherry during the last 20 days, the chief minister said that “what went wrong regarding the management of the drainage as also the other infrastructure” should be studied by the officials. Read more
Navy's operation
Indian NAVY conducts Aerial survey of Tambaram. Conducts rescue operations across the city.
Suburban train services resume
ExpressTrains from egmore services started. Five special trains will run today.
Two out of four lines restored in Egmore-Tambaram line. In Tambaram-Chengalpet, one out of two lines restored and Chengalpet to Vilupuram all lines are restored. - Ministry of Railways
Meanwhile, TNA chief Sampanthan expresses concern Hails TN govt, others for tireless efforts in providing relief.
1000s rescued
NDRF intensified its relief and rescue operations in the rain and flood-battered Chennai and its adjoining areas as it added 20 more teams for the job and rescued over 10,000 people till now. Read more
Rains abate, but localities in south continue to be flooded. Read more
(NDRF personnel during the rescue operation in Kotturpuram, Chennai on Thursday. PTI)
Bodies of 14 people, nine men and five women, who died in a private hospital in Chennai, were brought to the Royapettah Government Hospital in the city on Friday for postmortem.
The resident medical officer of the government hospital confirmed that all the bodies had come from MIOT Hospital at Manapakkam. Relatives of the patients claimed that the critical care systems failed because of lack of power at MIOT Hospital, because of heavy flooding over the last few days. Read more
A physically challenged person wades through flood waters on Pantheon Road. Photo: R. Ragu
However, communication lines — landline and mobile — remain disrupted.
In heavily flooded areas like Mudichur and Tambaram, people were looking up to the skies praying for the rains to stop, and for relief materials.
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