Tamil Nadu: Chennai schools, colleges shut today; IMD predicts heavy rains till 9 Dec. 10 points
Cyclone Michaung which made landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast near Bapatla on Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by intense rain and wind speeds up to 100 kmph, caused widespread devastation and affecting more than two crore people. The storm also claimed over a dozen lives. Thousands of ground-floor homes and vehicles remained submerged.
In Andhra Pradesh, the cyclone wreaked havoc on thousands of acres of standing crops, primarily paddy. Around 10,000 people were evacuated. Several areas of Chennai continued to reel under severe waterlogging conditions on Thursday amid heavy rainfall in the region in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Michaung, which made landfall two days ago.
Various parts of the city, including a petrol pump in the Pallikaranai area, Jerusalem College of Engineering remained inundated after heavy rainfall. The waterfalls at the Kodaikanal Hills in Dindigul district also swelled and overflowed due to heavy rainfall in the region. 1.The Tamil Nadu government announced that schools and colleges in the Chennai district will remain closed today i.e.
on 8 December as relief works are underway in rain-affected areas. 2. Tamil Nadu chief secretary Shiv Das Meena on Thursday said that 9,000 officials from other districts are deployed for the relief work.
"Work on water stagnation at 343 places is underway. Food packets are being distributed in the flood-affected areas. Other district workers like medical staff, fire service staff, EN staff, etc., have been called to work in Chennai for restoration.
A total of 9,000 officials from other districts are also deployed for the relief work in Chennai," Meena said. 3. As per IMD, Isolated heavy rainfall also very likely over Kerala and Tamil Nadu on 8th & 9th
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