Heavy Rain Batters Bengaluru, Many Roads Flooded, Cars Damaged - NDTV

Bengaluru:

Heavy rainfall battered Bengaluru connected Wednesday evening, flooding respective arterial roads successful the east, southbound and cardinal portion of the city, including the IT portion of Bellandur. According to the Meteorological Department, 59 mm rainfall was recorded successful Rajamahal Guttahalli successful the bluish portion of the city. The upwind bureau has issued a yellowish alert, indicative of dense rain, which it said volition proceed for the adjacent 3 days.

Visuals from low-lying areas showed heavy waterlogged roads, with h2o flowing into unfastened manholes, flooded basement parkings and damaged vehicles. Office-goers connected mode location had to instrumentality structure astatine metro stations, arsenic the rains started astir 7.30 -- the highest evening hour.   

The dense rainfall led to the illness of a partition adjacent Majestic that resulted successful damaging respective four-wheelers parked connected the road.

Last month, the metropolis grappled with unprecedented floods aft rainfall for 3 consecutive days that acceptable disconnected a governmental tussle betwixt the ruling BJP and the Congress.

Parts of the metropolis wherever planetary IT companies and home-grown start-ups are located, were nether water, which took days to recede. In adjacent residential areas, roads were marooned and h2o and energy lines snapped. Tractors were pressed into work to rescue residents successful immoderate of the posh lodging colonies.

Schools were closed and office-goers were asked to enactment from home.

Flight operations were affected and melodramatic videos of rescues, flooded roads and houses, submerged costly cars made the rounds of societal media.

The IT superior has breached each records of dense rains this year, logging 1706 mm since the monsoon started. In 2017, the metropolis received 1,696 mm rain.