![]() Water mixed with sewage entered houses in Valsaravakkam and Velachery. ![]() Core city areas such as Nungambakkam, T Nagar Teynampet, Kodambakkam and Egmore were all flooded and vehicle-users were seen pushing their vehicles that had conked out. Bedi along with other officials took stock of the scenario from the control room at Ripon Buildings. “The city did not see this much deluge even on November 7”, he said. City corporation commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi said the rains came in as a surprise as they were not informed about the weather update. At the end of the day, rainfall ranging from 8cm (airport) up to 18cm (MRC Nagar and Nungambakkam) had been recorded in a matter of seven hours. It was one unprecedented pile-up of vehicles from Royapettah up to the airport, said a commuter. ![]() Vehicles moving at snail’s pace were stranded on almost all main roads, including Anna Salai and Poonamallee high road, for hours, and the worst-hit were the office-goers returning home and other road-users. What started as moderate shower in the early afternoon, became heavy rain by the evening, taking residents, road-users and authorities alike by surprise. CHENNAI: Surprise showers pelted down Chennai non-stop for over seven-hours on Thursday, leaving the city paralysed and many roads and residential areas under knee-deep water.
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