Chennai Mazhai: The Big Question - Will it rain December end in Ch...

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Chennai Mazhai - Impact Summary December 1st

So many things happened because of heavy rainfall in Chennai today and I decided to put few down here.

1. Adyar Madhya Kailash Road Cave
2. Kotturpuram bridge Road Cave
3. Chennai - Tirupathi route blocked
4. Chennai - Dindivanam route blocked
5. Tambarm GST road blocked
6. Perungulathur lake broke and Mudichur residence flooded
7. Poondi lake outflow 36,000 cusecs
8. Chembaram lake outflow 25,000 cusecs
9. 650 families along Adyar river bank evacuated
10. Weird upward shower in road near Tidel Park
11. Chennai - Tiruchi route blocked
12. 12 trains from Chennai Egmore cancelled
13. 9 Flights landing delayed in Chennai international airport and airport was shut down in the late evening.
14. Tambaram Govt Hospital (for Chest care) flooded and Tambaram records historic 50 cm rainfall.
15. Water logging inside several IT parks

The reasons for the impact are several. Few are due to heavy rainfall, inability of Chennai infrastructure to drain rain water, poor quality roads, unplanned drainage, precautionary steps by TN Govt came late. I thank the Traffic Cops who are still out there to ease the traffic as much as possible inspite of flooding in roads.

The views are personal and everypoint is debatable. I am sure I have missed many but tried to capture few that I have thought of.