OOTY: Uprooted trees continued to play havoc with transport and power supply in the hills as the rains continued without any let up in central and western Nilgiris that saw Upper Bhavani near Ooty recording 100 mm of rainfall on Monday.
Rain continues unabated in the central and western parts of Nilgiris, that includes Ooty, Kundah, Gudalur and Pandalur taluks. The winds and rains that continued throughout Sunday night resulting in the uprooting of trees in quite a few places, hitting free flow of transport on the Ooty-Kotagiri, Coonoor-Kotagiri and Ooty-Gudalur roads for a while.
The situation was traumatic for soccer lovers as quite a few places across the hills were plunged into darkness on Sunday night when the world was watching the World Cup football finals.
Sources said that little over a hundred trees were uprooted and fell on cable lines in Parson's Valley, Sandhinallah and Ooty town limits. Though rainfall was less in Coonoor and Kotagiri limits, gusty winds uprooted trees in many places.
An uprooted huge tree in the Kattabettu area paralyzed traffic in the Coonoor-Kotagiri sector on Monday morning for an hour. Disaster management wing staff began to chop dangerous trees along the roadsides in Ooty on Monday.
