It’s raining problems for people in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Heavy rainfall that lashed the city on
Monday brought normal life in some parts of the city to a standstill
and left the traffic crawling during peak hours.
Overflowing drains in many areas added to the woes of commuters, who were already caught in a traffic gridlock that left a long pile up of vehicles on roads across the city, particularly on routes leading to Secunderabad and Hitec City.
Rainfall and thunderstorms also hit busy areas such as Banjara Hills, Ameerpet, Dilsukhnagar, LB Nagar, Punjagutta, Jubilee Hills, Abids, Tolichowki and Uppal.
However, even as the rains lashed the city, the rituals of the Bonalu festival were attended by a huge number of people who braved the rains in old city. The city recorded 41.8 mm till 8.30 p.m. on Monday evening and among all the areas, Srinagar Colony received the highest rainfall of 52 mm, followed by 51.8 mm in Madhapur and 51 mm in Amberpet.
The police department permitted Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to access 48 surveillance cameras in different areas to identify water and initiate remedial measures from the control room in the municipal corporation.
Accordingly, emergency teams were pressed into service to clear water stagnation points at different areas like Police Control Room, Raj Bhavan, Srinagar Colony and other areas.
The water level of the Hussainsagar stood at 513.10 metres against the full tank level of 513.41m.
According to Skymet, a private weather forecast agency, the intensity of rain is anticipated to increase over Telangana for the next 48 hours. The present weather conditions could be attributed to a low-pressure area marked over Northwest Bay of Bengal off the Odisha Coast.
“Though it has been raining on and off since the beginning of the month, the heavy downpour on Monday saw a large part of Hyderabad being waterlogged. The streets are so badly flooded that we cannot even spot a manhole,” Prateek Agarwal, a resident of Madhapur said.
The IMD Hyderabad said the monsoon would continue to intensify over the State in the next couple of days and predicted moderate to heavy rainfall in the city and across the State.
Overflowing drains in many areas added to the woes of commuters, who were already caught in a traffic gridlock that left a long pile up of vehicles on roads across the city, particularly on routes leading to Secunderabad and Hitec City.
Rainfall and thunderstorms also hit busy areas such as Banjara Hills, Ameerpet, Dilsukhnagar, LB Nagar, Punjagutta, Jubilee Hills, Abids, Tolichowki and Uppal.
However, even as the rains lashed the city, the rituals of the Bonalu festival were attended by a huge number of people who braved the rains in old city. The city recorded 41.8 mm till 8.30 p.m. on Monday evening and among all the areas, Srinagar Colony received the highest rainfall of 52 mm, followed by 51.8 mm in Madhapur and 51 mm in Amberpet.
The police department permitted Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to access 48 surveillance cameras in different areas to identify water and initiate remedial measures from the control room in the municipal corporation.
Accordingly, emergency teams were pressed into service to clear water stagnation points at different areas like Police Control Room, Raj Bhavan, Srinagar Colony and other areas.
The water level of the Hussainsagar stood at 513.10 metres against the full tank level of 513.41m.
According to Skymet, a private weather forecast agency, the intensity of rain is anticipated to increase over Telangana for the next 48 hours. The present weather conditions could be attributed to a low-pressure area marked over Northwest Bay of Bengal off the Odisha Coast.
“Though it has been raining on and off since the beginning of the month, the heavy downpour on Monday saw a large part of Hyderabad being waterlogged. The streets are so badly flooded that we cannot even spot a manhole,” Prateek Agarwal, a resident of Madhapur said.
The IMD Hyderabad said the monsoon would continue to intensify over the State in the next couple of days and predicted moderate to heavy rainfall in the city and across the State.
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