Emergency cell wakes up; Met says 7-day rain
On Thursday, a rainfall of 4.6cm was measured (till 08:30pm) in the twin cities
Hyderabad: With the Met predicting heavy and incessant rainfall in the city for the next seven days, the state machinery sprang to action, putting in place a contingency plan.
Thunderstorm with rain in Hyderabad has been predicted for the next few days. Deputy CM Mohammed Mahmood Ali said a central emergency cell has been set up, that would attend to complaints of water-logging and other rainfall-related grievances in Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
Heavy rainfall over the last few days has left the city already battered, with water-logging, inundation of low-lying areas and choking of drains.
On Thursday, a rainfall of 4.6cm was measured (till 08:30pm) in the twin cities. On Wednesday, both the cities received rainfall of over 5cm.
Even the Begum Bazar police station was inundated. Passengers of a Setwin bus escaped a major accident near flooded Nampally Junction. The bus tilted to one side.
The traffic police at Nampally swung into action and evacuated the passengers before it was too late.
Traffic staff physically kept holding the bus till a crane was called. At several major intersections, traffic police and GHMC staff worked together to clear stagnant water.
Traffic movement was slow at Begumpet, Ameerpet, Panjagutta, Khairatabad, Nagarjuna Circle, Road No. 12 Banjara Hills, Masab Tank, Lakdikapool, Hyderguda due to rain and water-logging. Facebook and Whatsapp groups kept buz-zing with the latest traffic updates.
In the last few days, GHMC’s monsoon teams attended to calls from 160 water stagnation areas, 26 fallen-tree complaints, removal of 52 choke points of storm water drains on main roads, and dewatering of 13 inundated areas.