The large waterlogging in Chennai after Cyclone Michaung has generated huge anger among the many residents, who say they obtained little warning or reduction from the federal government. There was nobody to say when energy or water could be again, not to mention present emergency provides. The helplines didn’t work and no authorities consultant was in sight for no less than two days.
This, a few of them mentioned, was worse than the scenario in 2015. Neither was the water chest deep in posh areas like Poes Backyard, the place the good and the well-known dwell, nor the place the folks’s representatives absent for 2 days.
The DMK authorities of MK Stalin has mentioned they had been ready for rains however not of this magnitude. What contributed to the scenario was the excessive tide, which made outflow of water from town inconceivable.
”The water was one toes in 2015. Now it’s chest excessive. There was property harm, automobiles had been broken. Nobody got here to speak to us, even to say when the ability will come again,” mentioned Ajit George Abraham, who lives in Venus Colony, situated behind Poes Backyard.
Kasthuri Shankar, a resident of Poes Backyard, mentioned there was no cyclone warning from the federal government and so they obtained to learn about it solely from social media, which is why they might reorganise the home in time.
In 2015, important provides like milk and water had been distributed from Day2, identified Mr Abraham. This time, nobody has been round.
What added to the strain was that his neighbourhood has numerous aged folks, who might need an emergency at any time and wish a hospital. However within the present scenario, that’s not doable. ”The hospital 230 meters away, however nobody can attain there,” he mentioned.
Ramesh Sundar, who lives in south Chennai, nonetheless, mentioned the outflow waterways have been blocked by the development of bungalows of movie stars, medical faculties and IT parks on the
There was heavy building within the lake space. There are engineering faculties, IT parrks, bungalows of movie stars on the coast lane. So the place will the water go?
Declaring that central Chennai higher ”as a result of it was constructed by the British,” he mentioned, ”Somebody advised me Rs 15,000 crore has been spent in 15 years by numerous governments. The place has it gone?”
The authorities, he mentioned, ”have taken 2 lakh as improvement bills from me after I constructed the home in 2015. The place has all this cash gone?”
”Are the celebrities not answerable to the general public? They’ve blocked your complete circulation of water in Chennai,” he added.
Declaring that new constructions within the metropolis, together with the metro tunnel, had no water, he questioned why the storm water drains couldn’t be made efficient. No PWD engineer, he mentioned, was to be seen in these closely waterlogged zone the previous few days.
DMK spokesman Sarvanan Annadurai mentioned they had been ready for the rain, however not this gargantuan deluge which might solely be termed a ”pure catastrophe”.
”When town was flooded the final time, there 24 cm rain. We had been ready for 30 cm, and even 32. What we obtained was 50 cm,” he mentioned.
Declaring that there was no criticism in the course of the monsoon final yr or this yr, he mentioned the federal government will do the needful and town would get again to normalcy inside a day or two.