Record rains submerge Chennai, kill 71 in Tamil Nadu Record rains submerge Chennai, kill 71 in Tamil Nadu
The Met office said the showers will continue for three more days.
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The rainfall between 8am on Sunday and 8am on Monday was the most the city received in 24 hours in November in a decade — almost twice as much as the previous record of 14cm on November 7, 2005 — and probably unsurpassed since the 45.2cm of November 25, 1976.
The IAF joined rescue operations, with helicopters carrying out six sorties from the Tambaram Air Force Station and lifting 22 people to safety from affected areas.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) deployed five teams of 200 men in Chennai even as the district administration pressed boats into service, with 600 localities remaining submerged in what is now an all-out crisis situation.
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Rescue teams had by Monday evening moved 10,000 people to safer areas from flooded localities and those at threat of flooding and rescued several hundred people from their houses in various localities, some of which were under rainwater up to 10ft high.
Chief minister J Jayalalitha visited rain-hit areas in the city, including her RK Nagar constituency, and announced Rs 500 crore for relief operations in the state.
The Met office said the showers will continue for three more days but they will be of diminished intensity as the depression responsible for the rainfall over the past 10 days has is moving northward from the Tamil Nadu coast.
"Rainfall will reduce starting from Monday evening," a Met official said. "Isolated heavy to very heavy rain will continue over northern Tamil Nadu and Puducherry till 8.30am on Tuesday."
The showers reduced temperatures, making for the most pleasant weather since the summer for those lucky enough to escape the flooding. The Met office recorded a minimum of 23.3°C and a maximum of 28.1°C on Monday.
The rainfall between 8am on Sunday and 8am on Monday was the most the city received in 24 hours in November in a decade — almost twice as much as the previous record of 14cm on November 7, 2005 — and probably unsurpassed since the 45.2cm of November 25, 1976.
The IAF joined rescue operations, with helicopters carrying out six sorties from the Tambaram Air Force Station and lifting 22 people to safety from affected areas.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) deployed five teams of 200 men in Chennai even as the district administration pressed boats into service, with 600 localities remaining submerged in what is now an all-out crisis situation.
Rescue teams had by Monday evening moved 10,000 people to safer areas from flooded localities and those at threat of flooding and rescued several hundred people from their houses in various localities, some of which were under rainwater up to 10ft high.
Chief minister J Jayalalitha visited rain-hit areas in the city, including her RK Nagar constituency, and announced Rs 500 crore for relief operations in the state.
The Met office said the showers will continue for three more days but they will be of diminished intensity as the depression responsible for the rainfall over the past 10 days has is moving northward from the Tamil Nadu coast.
"Rainfall will reduce starting from Monday evening," a Met official said. "Isolated heavy to very heavy rain will continue over northern Tamil Nadu and Puducherry till 8.30am on Tuesday."
The showers reduced temperatures, making for the most pleasant weather since the summer for those lucky enough to escape the flooding. The Met office recorded a minimum of 23.3°C and a maximum of 28.1°C on Monday.